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new_guinea_tribes: New Guinea Highlands tribes (1954)
A network of friendships among tribes of Gahuku-Gama alliance structure of the Eastern Central Highlands region in New Guinea. Edge sign indicates either friendship ("rova") or enmity ("hint”).
This network has 16 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed
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2025 NFL game-by-game predictions: Expert picks all 285 games, releases win total bets, Super Bowl futures

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position
A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea.
Now It’s Gone.
https://www.cjr.org/news/trump-lake-secret-program-voice-of-ame…

A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.
How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position.

Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble was released in Japan 25 years ago today (August 23, 2000). One of the coolest, most unique Game Boy Color games to come out-- it's a real blast. Here's my copy, and also a Japanese ad for it.
#Kirby #GameBoyColor

Ratjetoe aan rare voer­tuigen op het fietspad maakt Amsterdam ‘moedeloos’: ‘Onze stad is geen pretpark’ | de #Volkskrant
https://www.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

Las Vegas Raiders Game Log https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/las-vegas-raiders-team-game-log

An Empirical Study of GenAI Adoption in Open-Source Game Development: Tools, Tasks, and Developer Challenges
Xiang Echo Chen, Wenhan Zhu, Guoshuai Albert Shi, Michael W. Godfrey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18029

An Empirical Study of GenAI Adoption in Open-Source Game Development: Tools, Tasks, and Developer Challenges
The growing capabilities of generative AI (GenAI) have begun to reshape how games are designed and developed, offering new tools for content creation, gameplay simulation, and design ideation. While prior research has explored traditional uses of AI in games, such as controlling agents or generating procedural content. There is limited empirical understanding of how GenAI is adopted by developers in real-world contexts, especially within the open-source community. This study aims to explore how…

GM says Browns could keep four QBs on roster https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45815983/gm-berry-says-browns-keep-four-qbs-53-man-roster

Aaron Rodgers on facing Jets Week 1: 'It's one game out of 17' https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-on-facing-jets-week-1-it-s-one-game-out-of-17