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Niall Breslin:
🎵 Metta
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2UMn08GyNSzDyocH5PKBoF

"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power."
(Original title: The “Data” Narrative eats itself)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/15/…

The "Data" Narrative eats itself
“The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine.” Today I want to take David Gerard’s recent […]

"Die eigenen Bedürfnisse ehrlich zu kommunizieren, schön und gut, [...] aber davon auszugehen, dass enge Beziehungen zu anderen Menschen keine Solidarität, kein Engagement und hin und wieder Aufopferung brauchen, ist nicht nur illusorisch, sondern auch Ausdruck neoliberaler Individualisierung."
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Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Kneel
#NowPlaying #NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/kneel
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zHlu8zTCOQ2R6nobGogKJ

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.
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"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

RefGrader: Automated Grading of Mathematical Competition Proofs using Agentic Workflows
Hamed Mahdavi (Pennsylvania State University), Pouria Mahdavinia (Pennsylvania State University), Samira Malek (Pennsylvania State University), Pegah Mohammadipour (Pennsylvania State University), Alireza Hashemi (City University of New York), Majid Daliri (New York University), Alireza Farhadi (Amirkabir University of Technology), Amir Khasahmadi (Autodesk), Niloofar Mireshghallah (Carnegie Mellon …

RefGrader: Automated Grading of Mathematical Competition Proofs using Agentic Workflows
State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs have progressed from struggling on proof-based Olympiad problems to solving most of the IMO 2025 problems, with leading systems reportedly handling 5 of 6 problems. Given this progress, we assess how well these models can grade proofs: detecting errors, judging their severity, and assigning fair scores beyond binary correctness. We study proof-analysis capabilities using a corpus of 90 Gemini 2.5 Pro-generated solutions that we grade on a 1-4 scale with detailed err…

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Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Kneel
#NowPlaying #NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/kneel
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zHlu8zTCOQ2R6nobGogKJ