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Trump speaks with Petro amid nationwide Colombia protests against US after Venezuela intervention
Trump praises Colombian president’s ‘tone’ during call
and says they will meet soon,
while demonstrators rally across Colombia ‘to defend national sovereignty’
Venezuela to continue supplying oil to US ‘indefinitely’, White House says
Venezuela’s interim leader has said US forces’ attack to depose her predecessor
put a “stain” on the countries’ relations,

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece

A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:
“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when
Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”
“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”
YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @… ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

Bridged Clustering for Representation Learning: Semi-Supervised Sparse Bridging
Patrick Peixuan Ye, Chen Shani, Ellen Vitercik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07182 https://

Bridged Clustering for Representation Learning: Semi-Supervised Sparse Bridging
We introduce Bridged Clustering, a semi-supervised framework to learn predictors from any unpaired input $X$ and output $Y$ dataset. Our method first clusters $X$ and $Y$ independently, then learns a sparse, interpretable bridge between clusters using only a few paired examples. At inference, a new input $x$ is assigned to its nearest input cluster, and the centroid of the linked output cluster is returned as the prediction $\hat{y}$. Unlike traditional SSL, Bridged Clustering explicitly levera…

"Another threat to reefs: Microplastic chemicals may harm coral reproduction"
#CoralReef #Microplastics #Plastic

Another threat to reefs: Microplastic chemicals may harm coral reproduction
As the sliver of a new moon shines over Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, millions of tiny orbs ascend from a reef and swirl in the water column. These spheres are bundles of coral eggs and sperm responding to lunar cycles and chemical cues in the water that tell them when to fertilize and where to settle […]

Prolonged fallback and late-time rebrightening episodes in stellar tidal disruptions as imprints of a galactic environment
Cedric O\~na, Sean Fortuna, Ian Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07026

Prolonged fallback and late-time rebrightening episodes in stellar tidal disruptions as imprints of a galactic environment
We extend the classical Keplerian framework of existing analytic TDE models by incorporating the gravitational potential of a spherically symmetric galactic mass distribution. We then demonstrate that this broader structure imprints light curve features beyond the predictive scope of traditional models, such as phases of shallower-than-standard decay and late-time rebrightening episodes. Importantly, our framework predicts the occurrence of environment-induced rebrightenings but only on very lo…

Sky News granskning visar att X systematiskt påverkar politisk opinionsbildning enligt ägarens vilja. Med valet 2026 nära kan Sverige inte vänta - EU har redan slagit fast att plattformen bryter mot DSA. Vi behöver gemensamt ansvar för våra digitala demokratiska samtal.
https://carlheath.se…

We need more folks who understand POSSE and why it's crucial to a) personal digital sovereignty, b) functional open (democratic) societies, and c) a free and open Internet: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
canonical: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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The impact of missing data on the construction of LISA Time Delay Interferometry Michelson variables
Ollie Burke, Martina Muratore, Graham Woan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06406 …

The impact of missing data on the construction of LISA Time Delay Interferometry Michelson variables
We investigate the impact of missing input data on the construction of second-generation Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) variables, which enable data analysis for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). TDI relies on the introduction of precise time delays into the raw interferometric data streams before they are combined to suppress otherwise dominant laser phase noise. We show that a single missing sample, corresponding to 0.25 s of data, will result in an effective data gap of approxi…

Polynomial mixing of the critical Ising model on sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs
Kyprianos-Iason Prodromidis, Allan Sly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07254 https://…

Polynomial mixing of the critical Ising model on sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs
We consider the stochastic Ising model on sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs $G(n,d/n)$ with $d>1$ at the critical temperature $β_c=\tanh^{-1}(d^{-1})$ and prove that with high probability, the mixing time is at most polynomial in $n$. Our approach combines the recent stochastic localization framework of Chen and Eldan, which yields spectral gap bounds in the well-behaved bulk of the graph, together with classical results on the relaxation time of Glauber dynamics on trees to handle regions where we ca…