@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"The European Union covers a largely urbanised continent, but it sometimes feels like a farming-subsidy club with a flag and a parliament. Around a third of the bloc’s budget goes to farmers".
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/01/15/europes-farmers-no-longer-rule-the-roost-unchallenged?giftId=ODY0MmMxODAtMDg2My00YzUyLThkZDgtM2Q2NWRjMDY3OTA2&utm_campaign=gifted_article
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrowns propose rule allowing teams to trade draft picks five years into future https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-propose-rule-allowing-teams-to-trade-draft-picks-five-years-into-future
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat Fabio said…
(If you see the antisemitic Zionist meme accounts Fabio is talking about – yes, they’re about as antisemitic as you can get as they conflate being Jewish with supporting Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people – please report them for antisemitism. Good rule of thumb to remember: Zionism is – and always has been – antisemitic. Let’s make sure we implement a zero tolerance policy on the fediverse for genocide deniers and antisemitic Zionists.)
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM
@adulau@infosec.exchangeRulezet (The detection rule management) v1.4.0 released — Taxonomy, Precision, and Advanced Discovery
Version 1.4.0 is a milestone update that transforms how intelligence is categorized and retrieved within Rulezet. By placing Tags and Taxonomies at the heart of the ecosystem, this release empowers users with granular control over their data. From private custom tagging to a revolutionary filtering engine, v1.4.0 ensures that finding the right rule is no longer a search—it’s a precisio…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe rule of law / justice, is breaking down in the USA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.DLYy.spYn8eVKzeX…
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update from Dylan Combellick: stupidity and cruelty result from the frustrations of a flatworld mind stumbling through a 3D reality...
Friend link to bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-a…
@buercher@tooting.chUK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers
Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@pre@boing.worldPalestine Action have never been a terrorist group, have never tried to terrorize the British public. The attempt to classify them as one was unjust, authoritarian, and motivated by support for a foreign state committing war crimes.
I'm mostly just surprised that judges appointed by the British state operating in secret agree. Usually they back the corrupt British state entirely.
Yvette Cooper should be resigning in disgrace, suspected of treachery. Every MP and Lord that waved the proscription through through should be ashamed and probably also fired.
#ukpol #palestineAction
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL to reevaluate Rooney Rule: 'More work to do' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47811166/roger-goodell-says-nfl-reevaluate-diversity-approach-policies-1-minority-coach-hired-offseason-cyc…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/116171030059169579
TL; DR: Pseudoanonymised/anonymised data is bullshit.
Rule of thumb: pseudoanonymous data is just data that can be deanonymised when combined with other datasets with overlapping markers.
As…
@davej@dice.campThis. All of this. https://beige.party/@TwoClownsEating/116151153786143992
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
On the enshittification of Audre Lorde: "the master's tools" in tech discourse.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/
saved 20…
@saji@mastodon.social#MoviesWatched in March, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- No Other Choice 🔁
- The Testament of Ann Lee
- A Poet
- Evangelion: 3.0 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
- Joint Security Area 🌏
- Nouvelle Vague
- Blue Moon
- The Straight Story
- The Rule of Jenny Pen 🩸
- Double Indemnity 🕵️
- Calle Malaga 🇪🇸
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukTurns out that reversed eDP connectors is a known thing - arse; especially on Samsung OLED which is what I have. I've rescued most of the connector off the display and it still fits on the cable. 0.1" was so much easier.
@arXiv_nlinCG_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for nlin.CG. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.CG/new
[1/1]:
- Symmetric Nonlinear Cellular Automata as Algebraic References for Rule~30
E. Chan-L\'opez, A. Mart\'in-Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00165 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathph_bot/116334164203584620
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alRule of thumb: End-to-end encryption is meaningless unless you know and control exactly who the ends are. (Let’s call this the Waltz principle.)
Same goes unless the context your encrypted messenger is running in is secure. Signal can encrypt your messages all day long but you’re still screwed if the custom keyboard app you installed on your phone is sending them off to someone else before they even reach Signal.
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Self-Replication Phase Diagram: Mapping Where Life Becomes Possible in Cellular Automata Rule Space
Don Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25239 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25239
arXiv:2603.25239v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: What substrate features allow life? We exhaustively classify all 262,144 outer-totalistic binary cellular automata rules with Moore neighbourhood for self-replication and produce phase diagrams in the $(\lambda, F)$ plane, where $\lambda$ is Langton's rule density and $F$ is a background-stability parameter. Of these rules, 20,152 (7.69%) support pattern proliferation, concentrated at low rule density ($\lambda \approx 0.15$--$0.25$) and low-to-moderate background stability ($F \approx 0.2$--$0.3$), in the weakly supercritical regime (Derrida coefficient $\mu = 1.81$ for replicators vs. $1.39$ for non-replicators). Self-replicating rules are more approximately mass-conserving (mass-balance 0.21 vs. 0.34), and this generalises to $k{=}3$ Moore rules. A three-tier detection hierarchy (pattern proliferation, extended-length confirmation, and causal perturbation) yields an estimated 1.56% causal self-replication rate. Self-replication rate increases monotonically with neighbourhood size under equalised detection: von Neumann 4.79%, Moore 7.69%, extended Moore 16.69%. These results identify background stability and approximate mass conservation as the primary axes of the self-replication phase boundary.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca20.2°C in #Toronto but I'm not stowing my winter boots just yet. The Rule here in southern Canada is "Nothing goes into the ground before the May-24!" ¹ and in my years I've seen many attempts to challenge it, none succeeded.
¹ annual celebration of the first day of barbecue, named after the unique way we package our beer. Falls on the monday near the birthday of that monarch with the doily on her head.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alArguing that criticism of Zionism is criticism of all Jewish people is like arguing that criticism of MAGA is criticism of all Americans.
Just like there are a large number of Americans who are MAGA, there are a large number of Jews who are Zionists but no, not all Americans are MAGA and not all Jews are Zionists (rule of thumb, if your argument starts with “All Jews are…”, it’s a fundamentally antisemitic one).
Furthermore, just like not all MAGA are Americans (hello, Nigel Far…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- Bridge-RAG: An Abstract Bridge Tree Based Retrieval Augmented Generation Algorithm With Cuckoo Fi...
Li, Liu, Zong, Tao, Dai, Ren, Liu, Jiang, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26668 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322781593134028
- SRAG: RAG with Structured Data Improves Vector Retrieval
Shalin Shah, Srikanth Ryali, Ramasubbu Venkatesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26670 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322784870180864
- LITTA: Late-Interaction and Test-Time Alignment for Visually-Grounded Multimodal Retrieval
Seonok Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26683 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322841916406330
- Agentic AI for Human Resources: LLM-Driven Candidate Assessment
Yuksel, Anees, Elneima, Hewavitharana, Al-Badrashiny, Sawaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26710 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322937601675587
- SEAR: Schema-Based Evaluation and Routing for LLM Gateways
Zecheng Zhang, Han Zheng, Yue Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26728 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_bot/116322627580095245
- SleepVLM: Explainable and Rule-Grounded Sleep Staging via a Vision-Language Model
Guifeng Deng, Pan Wang, Jiquan Wang, Shuying Rao, Junyi Xie, Wanjun Guo, Tao Li, Haiteng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26738 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116322739676378309
- Aesthetic Assessment of Chinese Handwritings Based on Vision Language Models
Chen Zheng, Yuxuan Lai, Haoyang Lu, Wentao Ma, Jitao Yang, Jian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26768 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323078149576728
- Learning to Select Visual In-Context Demonstrations
Eugene Lee, Yu-Chi Lin, Jiajie Diao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26775 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116322648878995047
- CRISP: Characterizing Relative Impact of Scholarly Publications
Hannah Collison, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26791 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_bot/116322621679820997
- GroupRAG: Cognitively Inspired Group-Aware Retrieval and Reasoning via Knowledge-Driven Problem S...
Xinyi Duan, Yuanrong Tang, Jiangtao Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26807 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322959557860848
- In your own words: computationally identifying interpretable themes in free-text survey data
Jenny S Wang, Aliya Saperstein, Emma Pierson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26930 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116322780637316287
- Multilingual Stutter Event Detection for English, German, and Mandarin Speech
Felix Haas, Sebastian P. Bayerl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26939 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116322704289189130
- FormalProofBench: Can Models Write Graduate Level Math Proofs That Are Formally Verified?
Ravi, Ying, Nesterov, Krishnan, Uskuplu, Xia, Aswedige, Nashold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26996 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322625941412681
- PHONOS: PHOnetic Neutralization for Online Streaming Applications
Waris Quamer, Mu-Ruei Tseng, Ghady Nasrallah, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116322763598554193
- ChartNet: A Million-Scale, High-Quality Multimodal Dataset for Robust Chart Understanding
Jovana Kondic, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27064 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323214468792735
- daVinci-LLM:Towards the Science of Pretraining
Qin, Liu, Mi, Xie, Huang, Si, Lu, Feng, Wu, Liu, Luo, Hou, Guo, Qiao, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27164 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322653467105951
- LightMover: Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controls
Zhou, Wang, Kim, Shu, Yu, Hold-Geoffroy, Chaturvedi, Wu, Lin, Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323263295656104
- Self-evolving AI agents for protein discovery and directed evolution
Tan, Zhang, Li, Yu, Zhong, Zhou, Dong, Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27303 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322838641595927
- Inference-Time Structural Reasoning for Compositional Vision-Language Understanding
Amartya Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27349 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323280006044500
- LLM Readiness Harness: Evaluation, Observability, and CI Gates for LLM/RAG Applications
Alexandre Cristov\~ao Maiorano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27355 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322987708962414
- Heterogeneous Debate Engine: Identity-Grounded Cognitive Architecture for Resilient LLM-Based Eth...
Jakub Mas{\l}owski, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27404 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322999177460352
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@buercher@tooting.ch“This provisional implementation of the trade agreement with Mercosur is anti-democratic. The EU, which always talks about the principles of the rule of law, is here violating its own decision-making process,” said Dutch lawmaker Jessika van Leeuwen, who hails from the European People’s Party, von der Leyen’s own group.
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-implements-eu-mercosur-trade-deal/
