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With partner finances, Ukraine 'will shoot down everything' amid escalating Russian drone attacks, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/with-partner-finances-ukraine-will.html

Social Dynamics of DAOs: Power, Onboarding, and Inclusivity
Victoria Kozlova, Ben Biedermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06…

Social Dynamics of DAOs: Power, Onboarding, and Inclusivity
This report explores the often-overlooked cultural and social dynamics shaping participation and power in DAOs. Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations, it shows how factors such as financial privilege, informal gatekeeping, visibility bias, and onboarding structures create barriers to meaningful inclusion. While DAOs are frequently framed as permissionless and egalitarian, the lived experiences of contributors reveal a more complex reality, one in which soft power and i…

Rheinmetall to supply Ukraine with Skyranger systems to counter drones as Russia escalates strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/09/rheinmetall-to-supply-ukraine-with.html

Russia publishes a list of locally developed apps it says will function during mobile internet shutdowns, excluding foreign services like WhatsApp and YouTube (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-lists-local-apps-…

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — @…
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers…

Normalerweise zerfleischen sich Revolutionäre *nach* der erfolgreichen Revolution. Die #eID-GegnerInnen machen das schon vor der Abstimmung.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/e-id-dr…

Impact Assessment Card: Communicating Risks and Benefits of AI Uses
Edyta Bogucka, Marios Constantinides, Sanja \v{S}\'cepanovi\'c, Daniele Quercia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18919

Impact Assessment Card: Communicating Risks and Benefits of AI Uses
Communicating the risks and benefits of AI is important for regulation and public understanding. Yet current methods such as technical reports often exclude people without technical expertise. Drawing on HCI research, we developed an Impact Assessment Card to present this information more clearly. We held three focus groups with a total of 12 participants who helped identify design requirements and create early versions of the card. We then tested a refined version in an online study with 235 p…

Mitigating Gambling-Like Risk-Taking Behaviors in Large Language Models: A Behavioral Economics Approach to AI Safety
Y. Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22496

Mitigating Gambling-Like Risk-Taking Behaviors in Large Language Models: A Behavioral Economics Approach to AI Safety
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit systematic risk-taking behaviors analogous to those observed in gambling psychology, including overconfidence bias, loss-chasing tendencies, and probability misjudgment. Drawing from behavioral economics and prospect theory, we identify and formalize these "gambling-like" patterns where models sacrifice accuracy for high-reward outputs, exhibit escalating risk-taking after errors, and systematically miscalibrate uncertainty. We propose the Risk-Aware Respons…

Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast, official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/over-civilians-children-trapped-in.html

Trump administration escalates purge of senior US intelligence officials, Economist reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/trump-administration-escalates-purge-of.html