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And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.

NFL holds moment of silence for Charlie Kirk before Commanders-Packers game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6621151/2025/09/11/nfl-charlie-kirk-moment-of-silence-packers-commanders/

Current Situation:
The Gifford Fire moderated today
but continues to burn in the rugged Garcia Wilderness,
advancing toward the Huasna Valley and the community of Pozo.
This steep, inaccessible terrain has no recorded fire history,
making containment challenging.
Crews are strengthening control lines along Avenales Ranch Road, the Salinas River bed, Hi Mountain Road, Caldwell Trout Creek, and the Huasna River.
These efforts will continue tonight.

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Just out! My new article, 'Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility' in Comparative Education Studies is an exercise in hope to collectively, consciously, and critically re-examine education and education systems.
We can harness education's potential of promise by questioning assumptions - which/whose knowledges are legitimised and valued; what has been counted, discounted or marginalised as evidence.

Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility    - Comparative Education Studies (CES)
Commentary Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility Prachi Srivastava | pp. 86-91 Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest global disruption of schooling in recent history, resulting in immediate and cumulative ruptures. This commentary proposes a collective, conscious, and critical re-examination of education and education systems with a view to harnessing the […]

Developing and Maintaining an Open-Source Repository of AI Evaluations: Challenges and Insights
Alexandra Abbas, Celia Waggoner, Justin Olive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06893

Developing and Maintaining an Open-Source Repository of AI Evaluations: Challenges and Insights
AI evaluations have become critical tools for assessing large language model capabilities and safety. This paper presents practical insights from eight months of maintaining $inspect\_evals$, an open-source repository of 70+ community-contributed AI evaluations. We identify key challenges in implementing and maintaining AI evaluations and develop solutions including: (1) a structured cohort management framework for scaling community contributions, (2) statistical methodologies for optimal resam…

Trump slams Musk’s third party plan as ‘ridiculous,’ calls Musk ‘train wreck’: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/trump-slams-musks-third-party.html

Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft.
Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help formulate text-based scams.
But just as generative AI is enhancing and scaling social engineering attacks, so too is it giving defenders a leg up.

The hacking underworld has removed all of AI's guardrails, but the good guys are closing in
Fake Taylor Swift ads and malicious QR codes are just some of the newest ways cybercriminals are using AI as the cat-and-mouse cybersecurity game heats up.

In "dealing with Electron apps" news: troubleshooting blurry _Visual Studio Code_ under Wayland. Culprit? Fractional scaling. That was a lot of fun...
The new command:
```
/usr/share/code --unity-launch --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1
```
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The Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M Figma shares for $440M in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/02/figma-ipo-surpris…

Figma IPO’s surprise winner is a charity with 13 million shares—and a famous backstory that sparked a bitter feud over an oil fortune decades ago
The Marin Community Foundation netted $440 million as the IPO's largest selling shareholder. The philanthropic organization is itself the product of a previous generation of big business—and a famous legal fight for control of the money.

$WWh$ anomalous couplings at one loop from a seesaw variant of radiatively-induced neutrino masses
H\'ector Novales-S\'anchez, Enrique Ram\'irez, M\'onica Salinas, Humberto V\'azquez-Castro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05574

$WWh$ anomalous couplings at one loop from a seesaw variant of radiatively-induced neutrino masses
After the successful measurement of the Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider, the determination of whether it corresponds to either the minimal version of the Higgs scalar, provided by the Standard Model, or to some new physics, so far unknown, has become a main objective of the high-energy-physics community. In particular, the investigation of the couplings of this particle with the rest of the Standard-Model field content is a central task. To this aim, in the present paper we con…