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they do, i literally saw one in Menard's like a week ago lol
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/115337578719605775

"If you speak against me, I'm coming to your home. If you speak against me, you may end up in jail. If you speak against me, you're going to incur millions of dollars in legal fees, so keep your mouth shut.”
"If you're a university and you teach things I don't like, I'm going to take your funding,” "
**Worst-case scenario' unfolding as Trump sends new 'message' to critics: legal expert** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-retribution-2673910670/

The Trump administration is dismantling the last of the public commons.
It’s cutting billions to state programs tracking disease,
repealing emissions and drinking water regulations,
revoking hundreds of millions in funding for life-saving research,
canceling local food programs for schools and food banks,
rolling back vaccinations,
and shutting down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Commi…

“Make America Healthy Again” Aims to Make Public Health Your Private Responsibility
The message coming from the Trump administration is: “Take care of yourselves — because we won’t.”…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Milena Casado:
🎵 SELF LOVE
#MilenaCasado
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MgEgj19iWFaLHDSEWsJrj

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
https://thetrichordist.com/2025/08/07/

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
Spotify’s 1,000-stream royalty threshold isn’t just a cost-saving measure—it’s a redistribution scheme that cuts out millions of tracks while still using them to drive engagement, ads, and algorith…

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning
Gagan Mundada, Yash Vishe, Amit Namburi, Xin Xu, Zachary Novack, Julian McAuley, Junda Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04744

WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning
Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various vision-language tasks. However, their reasoning abilities in the multimodal symbolic music domain remain largely unexplored. We introduce WildScore, the first in-the-wild multimodal symbolic music reasoning and analysis benchmark, designed to evaluate MLLMs' capacity to interpret real-world music scores and answer complex musicological queries. Each instance in WildScore is sourc…

The Milky Way is a less massive galaxy--new estimates of the Milky Way's local and global stellar masses
Jianhui Lian (Yunnan Uni.), Tao Wang (Yunnan Uni.), Qikang Feng (Peking Uni.), Yang Huang (U of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Helong Guo (Yunnan Uni.)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13665

The Milky Way is a less massive galaxy--new estimates of the Milky Way's local and global stellar masses
Stellar mass is the most fundamental property of a galaxy. While it has been robustly measured for millions of external galaxies, it remains poorly constrained for the Milky Way because of the strong selection effect from our inside perspective. In this work, we reconstruct the intrinsic vertical mass density profile in the solar neighborhood and the radial mass density profile across the entire Galaxy using data from the Gaia and APOGEE surveys, following careful correction for the selection f…

Synthesizing Sheet Music Problems for Evaluation and Reinforcement Learning
Zhilin Wang, Zhe Yang, Yun Luo, Yafu Li, Haoran Zhang, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F. Wong, Jizhe Zhou, Yu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04059

Synthesizing Sheet Music Problems for Evaluation and Reinforcement Learning
Enhancing the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to interpret sheet music is a crucial step toward building AI musicians. However, current research lacks both evaluation benchmarks and training data for sheet music reasoning. To address this, we propose the idea of synthesizing sheet music problems grounded in music theory, which can serve both as evaluation benchmarks and as training data for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR…

Well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/brown-university-makes-a-deal-with-the-white-house-to-restore-funding.html

Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding
The deal comes after Columbia University negotiated with the Trump administration to restore millions in research dollars.