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Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-trials-230-content-design/

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

Things like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.

This is also why the US far right are coming for the EU now..
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109906653535473465
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io - Students of US history understand what Lincoln knew: One reason you can't have slavery in some parts of the country and not in others, is because slaves run to the free parts.
But many of those same students don't realize that you can't block women's reproductive rights in some parts of the country and let it be legal in others. People travel to California. This frustrates the racists.
The racists are coming for women's rights everywhere. Nationwide. And they will use racism to accomplish it.

#Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
HOWER: Release them. [The robot emits a purple ray that loosens the bonds]. Give them their bracelets. [Two Pyroans bring the guns and last two bracelets.] You are free to go. If you stay any longer you will be in danger. Come.
TARRANT: What is this vow you spoke of?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/3]:
- SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary
Farabi, Pinto, Lu, Ramos-Maqueda, Das, Deeb, Sautmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18431 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116119352329590193
- Benchmarking Distilled Language Models: Performance and Efficiency in Resource-Constrained Settings
Sachin Gopal Wani, Eric Page, Ajay Dholakia, David Ellison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20164 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130101399805837
- VISION-ICE: Video-based Interpretation and Spatial Identification of Arrhythmia Origins via Neura...
Dorsa EPMoghaddam, Feng Gao, Drew Bernard, Kavya Sinha, Mehdi Razavi, Behnaam Aazhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20165 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130222034322594
- Benchmarking Early Deterioration Prediction Across Hospital-Rich and MCI-Like Emergency Triage Un...
KMA Solaiman, Joshua Sebastian, Karma Tobden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20168 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116130239074411770
- Cross-Chirality Generalization by Axial Vectors for Hetero-Chiral Protein-Peptide Interaction Design
Yang, Tian, Jia, Zhang, Zheng, Wang, Su, He, Liu, Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20176 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/116130281674122586
- Enhancing Heat Sink Efficiency in MOSFETs using Physics Informed Neural Networks: A Systematic St...
Aniruddha Bora, Isabel K. Alvarez, Julie Chalfant, Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20177 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/116130397676559696
- Data-Driven Deep MIMO Detection:Network Architectures and Generalization Analysis
Yongwei Yi, Xinping Yi, Wenjin Wang, Xiao Li, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20178 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130257424413457
- OrgFlow: Generative Modeling of Organic Crystal Structures from Molecular Graphs
Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar, Matthew A. McDonald, Feng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20195 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/116130271189617558
- KEMP-PIP: A Feature-Fusion Based Approach for Pro-inflammatory Peptide Prediction
Soumik Deb Niloy, Md. Fahmid-Ul-Alam Juboraj, Swakkhar Shatabda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20198 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioQM_bot/116130341315320687
- Regressor-guided Diffusion Model for De Novo Peptide Sequencing with Explicit Mass Control
Shaorong Chen, Jingbo Zhou, Jun Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioQM_bot/116130374083646541
- The Sim-to-Real Gap in MRS Quantification: A Systematic Deep Learning Validation for GABA
Zien Ma, S. M. Shermer, Oktay Karaku\c{s}, Frank C. Langbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130267228834775
- Gap-Dependent Bounds for Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Appro...
Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20297 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130255458256497
- Multilevel Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among U.S. Children Aged 10-17: Comparative Eva...
Joyanta Jyoti Mondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20303 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130097466859145
- An artificial intelligence framework for end-to-end rare disease phenotyping from clinical notes ...
Shyr, Hu, Tinker, Cassini, Byram, Hamid, Fabbri, Wright, Peterson, Bastarache, Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20324 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130100089848459
- Circuit Tracing in Vision-Language Models: Understanding the Internal Mechanisms of Multimodal Th...
Jingcheng Yang, Tianhu Xiong, Shengyi Qian, Klara Nahrstedt, Mingyuan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20330 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130463214879334
- No One Size Fits All: QueryBandits for Hallucination Mitigation
Nicole Cho, William Watson, Alec Koppel, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20332 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130370809116915
- Learning During Detection: Continual Learning for Neural OFDM Receivers via DMRS
Mohanad Obeed, Ming Jian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20361 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116130289537785136
- Detecting and Mitigating Group Bias in Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Joel Persson, Jurri\"en Bakker, Dennis Bohle, Stefan Feuerriegel, Florian von Wangenheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20383 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116130509065601748
- Selecting Optimal Variable Order in Autoregressive Ising Models
Shiba Biswal, Marc Vuffray, Andrey Y. Lokhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20394 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130299369541741
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The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.