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Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

About that warm reception MBS got:
Biden may regret releasing report on Khashoggi murder, says expert — Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/biden-may-regret-releasing-report-on-khashoggi-murder-says-expert/

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…

AI and Crypto Companies Dominated IPO Winners in 2025
The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries. Bankers expect those trends to hold in 2026. Booms in AI and crypto delivered two of the biggest winners of the year: data center developer ...

We just had so much fun at home reading the most recent and some older german"#Jugendwort des Jahres" (words of the youth) - sorry, article in german:

Erst die Flutkatastrophe und dann das :/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Leberkasverbrechen/comments/1p13znq/ahrtal_2021/

Då det nu uppstått en debatt om de allt fler miljardärerna i Sverige - och huruvida de när eller tär - vill jag tipsa om den här intervjun med ekonomen Gabriel Zucman från tidigare i höstas. https://www.dn.se/varlden/stjarnekonomens-forslag-sa-ska-sup…

Gabriel Zucman: ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”
Den franske ekonomen Gabriel Zucman vill införa en minimiskatt för miljardärer. ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Long Blondes:
🎵 Giddy Stratospheres
#TheLongBlondes
https://thelongblondes.bandcamp.com/track/giddy-stratospheres-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mKZVIaSNCAxhV6U8TK8uq

from my link log —
The honest troubleshooting code of conduct.
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/05/01/code/
saved 2021-05-02 https://

Es geht um das automatisierte Erkennen von Emotionen in Gesichtern: »Wie gesehen, fußen viele der für das ganze Gebiet maßgeblichen Datensätze darauf, dass Schauspieler für die Kamera mimisch darstellen. Das bedeutet, dass KI-Systeme auf das Erkennen unechter Gefühlsausdrücke trainiert werden. Sie behaupten also zwar, Zugang zu Grundwahrheiten über natürliche innere Zustände zu haben, aber ihr Trainingsmaterial ist zwangsläufig unauthentisch.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/20…

Trump's latest pardons underscore the breadth of his efforts to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden.
Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson,
whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning.

Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who had been sentenced to…

Trump gives second pardon to Jan. 6 participant and pardons two others
The latest pardons underscore the breadth of the efforts the president has taken to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12722

Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Whether language models (LMs) have inductive biases that favor typologically frequent grammatical properties over rare, implausible ones has been investigated, typically using artificial languages (ALs) (White and Cotterell, 2021; Kuribayashi et al., 2024). In this paper, we extend these works from two perspectives. First, we extend their context-free AL formalization by adopting Generalized Categorial Grammar (GCG) (Wood, 2014), which allows ALs to cover attested but previously overlooked cons…

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 13. November 2021 nahmen 400 Menschen an der Stand Up For Nuclear 2021 Demonstration in Berlin teil, organisiert von Nuklearia e.V. Der Verein wird im Zusammenhang mit der #Atomlobby und einer vermeintlichen Nähe zur AfD wahrgenommen.

🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
#robots

Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.

You suspect that when they announced this in 2021, they may not have suspected that anti-fascist themes would be so politically contentious.
https://kotaku.com/captain-america-black-panther-game-delay-marvel-hydra-2000641825

Wanna feel old? Back in the now seemingly forever-ago days of 2021 we had an interlinked network of human-curated knowledge we called the world wide web and search engines that could pinpoint accurate information in fractions of a second

I'm late to this, but I had a conversation last night that I'd like to recap here.
I'm not NYC resident. I'm not knowledgeable of the issues NYC faces. Thus, I didn't endorse anyone for NYC mayor.
I will comment on #Cuomo. Resigned in disgrace in 2021 — that should've ended his political career. Lost the Dem primary in June — that should've ended his mayoral ru…

France's CNIL fines Condé Nast €750K because vanityfair.fr placed cookies on user devices without proper consent, following a December 2019 complaint (CNIL)
https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-placed-without-consent-company-publi…

I thought Arthur Andersen folded after #Enron? Wonder why they still have a /16, among which is a server impersonating a bunch of #Amazon hosts...

Raiders sign DL Boogie Basham to the practice squad https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-dl-boogie-basham-to-the-practice-squad-2025-transactions

Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-re…

Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.

Gini-Index Vermögen Schweiz (0% Gleichverteilung, 100% extreme Ungleichheit
2000 80%
2016 72%
2019 70%
2021 77%
Ungleichheit hat kurzfristig zugenommen, ist aber tiefer als vor 25 Jahren.
Quelle Wikipedia

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye, Jianguo Ding, Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt, Adamu Gaston Philipo, Huansheng Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20411

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews GAN-based adversarial defenses in cybersecurity (2021--August 31, 2025), consolidating recent progress, identifying gaps, and outlining future directions. Using a PRISMA-compliant systematic literature review protocol, we searched five major digital libraries. From 8…