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Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-vote-boebert.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p94#a251112p94

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
VILA: Yes, but Zen's only a machine.
AVON: So is Orac. [He removes the activator and throws it across the flight deck.]
VILA: That's all right, that's fixed Orac.
BLAKE: No, it hasn't.
JENNA: What do you mean?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/484

A behavioral reinvestigation of the effect of long ties on social contagions
Luca Lazzaro, Manuel S. Mariani, Ren\'e Algesheimer, Radu Tanase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04785

A behavioral reinvestigation of the effect of long ties on social contagions
Faced with uncertainty in decision making, individuals often turn to their social networks to inform their decisions. In consequence, these networks become central to how new products and behaviors spread. A key structural feature of networks is the presence of long ties, which connect individuals who share few mutual contacts. Under what conditions do long ties facilitate or hinder diffusion? The literature provides conflicting results, largely due to differing assumptions about individual dec…

Activation-Deactivation: A General Framework for Robust Post-hoc Explainable AI
Akchunya Chanchal, David A. Kelly, Hana Chockler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01038 https://…

Activation-Deactivation: A General Framework for Robust Post-hoc Explainable AI
Black-box explainability methods are popular tools for explaining the decisions of image classifiers. A major drawback of these tools is their reliance on mutants obtained by occluding parts of the input, leading to out-of-distribution images. This raises doubts about the quality of the explanations. Moreover, choosing an appropriate occlusion value often requires domain knowledge. In this paper we introduce a novel forward-pass paradigm Activation-Deactivation (AD), which removes the effects o…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
FRANTON: Leave it, Zelda.
ZELDA: But the foetuses will die.
AVON: They're going to die anyway. Vila, get us out of here. [Zelda removes bracelet. More beeping]
CALLY: Zelda! [Zelda adjusts settings on machine]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/569

Practical security of local local oscillator continuous-variable quantum key distribution systems with pulse width mismatch
Yi Zheng, Jiarui Wu, Chenlei Fang, Qingbing Ji, Wei Pan, Haobin Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26021

Practical security of local local oscillator continuous-variable quantum key distribution systems with pulse width mismatch
In continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) systems, using a local local oscillator (LLO) scheme removes the local oscillator side channel, enhances Bob's detection performance and reduces the excess noise caused by photon leakage, thereby effectively improves the system's security and performance. However, in this scheme, since the signal and the LO are generated by different lasers and the signal propagates through the untrusted quantum channel, their pulse widths may become misma…

How important is language for human-like intelligence?
Gary Lupyan, Hunter Gentry, Martin Zettersten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15560 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

How important is language for human-like intelligence?
We use language to communicate our thoughts. But is language merely the expression of thoughts, which are themselves produced by other, nonlinguistic parts of our minds? Or does language play a more transformative role in human cognition, allowing us to have thoughts that we otherwise could (or would) not have? Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science have reinvigorated this old question. We argue that language may hold the key to the emergence of both more gene…

Activation-Deactivation: A General Framework for Robust Post-hoc Explainable AI
Akchunya Chanchal, David A. Kelly, Hana Chockler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01038 https://…

Activation-Deactivation: A General Framework for Robust Post-hoc Explainable AI
Black-box explainability methods are popular tools for explaining the decisions of image classifiers. A major drawback of these tools is their reliance on mutants obtained by occluding parts of the input, leading to out-of-distribution images. This raises doubts about the quality of the explanations. Moreover, choosing an appropriate occlusion value often requires domain knowledge. In this paper we introduce a novel forward-pass paradigm Activation-Deactivation (AD), which removes the effects o…

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
DAYNA: Wait, I'm coming with you.
[Scene shifts back to Tarrant. One of the guards sprints toward him; the other removes a small card from their weapon, and studies it thoughtfully.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/308 B7B3

Thermal History Asymmetry and Dissipation in Dense Colloidal Microgel Glasses
Sonali Vasant Kawale, Yogesh M Joshi, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16697 https:…

Thermal History Asymmetry and Dissipation in Dense Colloidal Microgel Glasses
Microstructurally arrested matter, from molecular glasses to soft glassy materials, can retain a memory of their thermal or mechanical (shear) histories. Their history-dependent and nonlinear microstructural recoveries have been studied within the Kovacs framework. Here, we applied the temperature ramps of varying magnitudes to dense colloidal suspensions of thermoresponsive, deformable and compressible microgel particles should serve as an effective strategy to probe the nonlinear path-depende…