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10 Vegan Summer Dinner Ideas #plantbased

10 Vegan Summer Dinner Ideas
These 10 vegan summer dinner ideas are great for barbecues, small gatherings, and just good shareable meals during the week.

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

TOMI: Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas for Multi-Track Compositions with Full-Song Structure
Qi He, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23094

TOMI: Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas for Multi-Track Compositions with Full-Song Structure
Hierarchical planning is a powerful approach to model long sequences structurally. Aside from considering hierarchies in the temporal structure of music, this paper explores an even more important aspect: concept hierarchy, which involves generating music ideas, transforming them, and ultimately organizing them--across musical time and space--into a complete composition. To this end, we introduce TOMI (Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas) as a novel approach in deep music generation and dev…

Long shot but I can't find an answer with "short searches": I got a KVM. Everything finally works, except Mint shuts down (closing all apps) when I switch to the other computer and I need to open the lid to make it come back.
This is with "lid action=nothing" in the power settings, of course.
Any ideas? Even ideas on how to express this concept in a way that lets me find the relevant reddit thread would be awesome.

Predicting Empirical AI Research Outcomes with Language Models
Jiaxin Wen, Chenglei Si, Yueh-han Chen, He He, Shi Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00794 htt…

Predicting Empirical AI Research Outcomes with Language Models
Many promising-looking ideas in AI research fail to deliver, but their validation takes substantial human labor and compute. Predicting an idea's chance of success is thus crucial for accelerating empirical AI research, a skill that even expert researchers can only acquire through substantial experience. We build the first benchmark for this task and compare LMs with human experts. Concretely, given two research ideas (e.g., two jailbreaking methods), we aim to predict which will perform better…

Imagine if a candidate for US President had a workable program to ban sludge, that bureaucratic hell companies and the government put us through on support lines, in endless phone menus, and online to make us give up. They'd win 50 states!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

U.S. and El Salvador presidents are the torture twins!
Some nicknames for El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukkake:
El Salvador’s Shame
Criminal in Chief
Trump’s Torture Czar
Mr. New Bad Ideas
Icky Erdoğan
For nicknames for the American president, see my bot that posts one every hour:
@…

When JD Vance arrived in the Senate in 2023, he backed a raft of proposals that were characterized as reflecting a new brand of economic populism for the Republican Party.
He championed higher taxes on some businesses, increased support for families and a willingness to interfere in free markets that bordered on the heretical in the modern GOP.

Two years later, the now-vice president’s distinctive policy ideas are hard to find in the tax legislation now advancing through Congres…

JD Vance’s prior vision for populism is largely absent from GOP tax bill
The GOP tax bill advancing through Congress does not include key proposals championed by JD Vance, including a $5,000 child tax credit and a tax on executives of large banks that fail.

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-07-02-cmp.html
a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators

Have you ever watched a @… video? They’re incredibly well-crafted, full of meaningful motion and creative ideas...
and we’ll chat with the man himself this Wednesday to find out how they come together!
Spoiler: it’s fascinating stuff that you’re very familiar with ;)

The Unconstitutional Conservatives -- Not too long ago, Republicans believed in the rule of law ... (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-unconstitutional-conservative-republican/682987/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZBUToihj1vqMp3WylhCDR8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p39#a250531p39

Heard about a recent European conference on how to keep cities cool. Ideas range from cooling shelters to competitions on which town can replace the most pavement with trees.
#Munich will offer its citizens… an „interactive map on where to find drinking fountains“.
You absolute knobs. Meanwhile I have to endure motorcycle riders revving their machines in the almost tropical night. An…

In the last couple of months, I've been distracted. Disconnected from the others and me. June was way better. It may be a local maximum. Who knows? But we better enjoy the good times whenever we can.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-june-2025/

The Changelog – June 2025
In this scorching hot June, I started to be myself again and I am again finally able to feel enthusiasm for projects and ideas. And for this reason, I read and watched more things. So let’s explore last month’s books, movie, and my favorite Japanese web radio.

I wrote up a longer post about a bike riding group and how we use the web... along with some of my own thoughts on how to do it.
Feedback and ideas are welcome!
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/05/31/milwaukee-critical-mass-web-site/

Milwaukee Critical Mass Web Site
Thoughts on how we use the web in 2025...

Literature-Grounded Novelty Assessment of Scientific Ideas
Simra Shahid, Marissa Radensky, Raymond Fok, Pao Siangliulue, Daniel S. Weld, Tom Hope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22026 …

Literature-Grounded Novelty Assessment of Scientific Ideas
Automated scientific idea generation systems have made remarkable progress, yet the automatic evaluation of idea novelty remains a critical and underexplored challenge. Manual evaluation of novelty through literature review is labor-intensive, prone to error due to subjectivity, and impractical at scale. To address these issues, we propose the Idea Novelty Checker, an LLM-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that leverages a two-stage retrieve-then-rerank approach. The Idea Nove…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
Lu\'is Cruz, Jo\~ao Paulo Fernandes, Maja H. Kirkeby, Silverio Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez, June Sallou, Hina Anwar, Enrique Barba Roque, Justus Bogner, Joel Casta\~no, Fernando Castor, Aadil Chasmawala, Sim\~ao Cunha, Daniel Feitosa, Alexandra Gonz\'alez, Andreas Jedlitschka, Patricia Lago, Ana Oprescu, Pooja Rani, Jo\~ao Saraiva, Federica Sarro, Raghavendra…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
The environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled systems is increasing rapidly, and software engineering plays a critical role in developing sustainable solutions. The "Greening AI with Software Engineering" CECAM-Lorentz workshop (no. 1358, 2025) funded by the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire and the Lorentz Center, provided an interdisciplinary forum for 29 participants, from practitioners to academics, to share knowledge, ideas, practices, and current resul…

The Atlantic vergleicht die Politik der #Trump-Administration mit dem Sacco di Roma, der Plünderung Roms 1527 durch Söldnertruppen. Interessanter Vergleich.
The New Dark Age. Wie treffend.
https…

The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

Stacks, Monodromy and Symmetric Cubic Surfaces
Alberto Landi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00934…

Stacks, Monodromy and Symmetric Cubic Surfaces
We investigate monodromy groups arising in enumerative geometry, with a particular focus on how these groups are influenced by prescribed symmetries. To study these phenomena effectively, we work in the framework of moduli stacks rather than moduli spaces. This perspective proves broadly useful for understanding and constructing monodromy. We illustrate these ideas through several examples, with special attention to the 27 lines on a cubic surface, assuming the surface admits a given symmetry g…

UNSW Centre For Ideas
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Weather affects economic growth in the short run. In the long run, the effect is insignificant except in a few extreme cases.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers/2505.17946.html @…

The Effects of Climate and Weather on Economic Output: Evide
Estimating the effects of climate on economic output is crucial for formulating climate policy, but current empirical findings remain ambiguous. Using annual panel model and panel long-difference mode

My article just out:
Progressive Jews (and non-Jews too!) need to revive the social democratic politics of solidarity. It brings poor & middle together, in contrast to the politics of far-left "allyship" & elite charity which both drive them apart.
https://www.

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives
In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn't have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

I don't fully get the instinct to reject and attack the Abundance book. If you think it's too small then it seems easy to "yes and" with your own ideas.
At one point they call the book a conspiracy?
It seems to me Ezra talked with people trying to install solar and got one answer. Aaron says when he talked to similar people he got a different one. that is an interesting topic to look more into!

Detecting non-uniform patterns on high-dimensional hyperspheres
Tiefeng Jiang, Tuan Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00444 https://arx…

Detecting non-uniform patterns on high-dimensional hyperspheres
We propose a new probabilistic characterization of the uniform distribution on hyperspheres in terms of its inner product, extending the ideas of \cite{cuesta2009projection,cuesta2007sharp} in a data-driven manner. Using this characterization, we define a new distance that quantifies the deviation of an arbitrary distribution from uniformity. As an application, we construct a novel nonparametric test for the uniformity testing problem: determining whether a set of \(n\) i.i.d. random points on …

Freeing Your Piano Technique - Practising the Piano
#piano
https://practisingthepiano.com/freeing

Freeing Your Piano Technique - Practising the Piano
Fred Karpoff shares some ideas from his recent workshop on how a whole body approach to technique facilitates effortless piano playing.

Surface waves and axoplasmic pressure waves in action potential propagation: fundamentally different physics or two sides of the same coin?
Marat M. Rvachev, Benjamin Drukarch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24580

Surface waves and axoplasmic pressure waves in action potential propagation: fundamentally different physics or two sides of the same coin?
We argue that El Hady and Machta's "surface wave" model describes the same underlying process as the "axoplasmic pressure wave" model introduced earlier by Rvachev. Note. We, the authors, contacted A. El Hady and B. Machta for comment on the ideas presented herein. They suggested that we "submit a Matters Arising Letter to Nature Communications and we will be asked to respond in due time." Nature Communications ultimately rejected the manuscript, citing: "... Our main criterion for consider…

Characterizations of the Sobolev norms and the total variation via nonlocal functionals, and related problems
Hoai-Minh Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00842

Characterizations of the Sobolev norms and the total variation via nonlocal functionals, and related problems
We briefly discuss the contribution of Haïm Brezis and his co-authors on the characterizations of the Sobolev norms and the total variation using non-local functionals. Some ideas of the analysis are given and new results are presented.

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine (Helen Lewis/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/transgender-youth-skrmetti/683350/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p90#a250629p90

Preparing for tomorrow's No Kings protests?
✅ 54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
https://wildingout.substack.com/p/54-anti-trump-protest-sign-ideas

54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
Fun signs ideas that are creative as they are hilarious

Take, for example, permissions. We have an onerous permission model that stops a user acting as another, but sandboxing applications is mostly absent, except on mobile devices. This is because in the 1970s, you could trust the code, but you couldn’t trust the people! Now, computers are used by individuals, and we don’t trust the software, but the model hasn’t caught up.
I think the ideas in the essays are salient and really helpful in imagining what might have been, and what could be.

#privacy

How to Disappear: Secrets of the World’s Greatest Privacy Experts
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

"They ran the bare job titles through GPT, without looking at the details of the specific jobs, and got the chatbot to guess what those titles would have meant. Then they decided the chatbot could do most of the jobs. They were, after all, using the chatbot to do their job."
Rule: your job can successfully be taken over by a chatbot if it comes with no accountability.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
By David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
It’s good to see ideas such as increasing self-sufficiency and diversifying trade partners emerging in response to U.S. attacks on Canada’s economy and threats to our sovereignty. As usual, though, the fossil fuel industry and its supporters are taking advantage of this “crisis” to push for more oil and gas infrastructure, particularly pipelines.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
A true nation-building project would be to create a renewable-powered integrated electricity grid throughout the country.

Higher path groupoids and the holonomy of formal power series connections
Matthew Cellot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23880 https://arx…

Higher path groupoids and the holonomy of formal power series connections
Building on ideas of Kohno, we develop a framework for the construction of higher holonomy functors via the transport of formal power series connections. Using these techniques, we obtain functors from the path groupoid, the path 2-groupoid, and the path 3-groupoid of a manifold. As an application, we construct a Gray functor from the path 3-groupoid of the configuration space of $m$ points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\geqslant 4$.

Un vagón vacío de ideas. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
#Columnistas

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/america-trump-authoritarianism-global/682528/
"At a time like this, hesitation can mean the difference between freedom and tyranny."

Is there a proposal to create something like mail over ActivityPub? Just imagine, instead of sending letters by mail you could just address someone by writing it to their ActivityPub powered mail instance!
I would suggest calling it apmail but I'm open to other ideas.

Nice to see them do Firefly...
'X-Files' and 'Wallace & Gromit' Are Getting Their Own Lego Sets
https://gizmodo.com/lego-x-files-wallace-and-gromit-ideas-sets-price-release-date-2000620172

Rethinking Group Recommender Systems in the Era of Generative AI: From One-Shot Recommendations to Agentic Group Decision Support
Dietmar Jannach, Amra Deli\'c, Francesco Ricci, Markus Zanker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00535

Rethinking Group Recommender Systems in the Era of Generative AI: From One-Shot Recommendations to Agentic Group Decision Support
More than twenty-five years ago, first ideas were developed on how to design a system that can provide recommendations to groups of users instead of individual users. Since then, a rich variety of algorithmic proposals were published, e.g., on how to acquire individual preferences, how to aggregate them, and how to generate recommendations for groups of users. However, despite the rich literature on the topic, barely any examples of real-world group recommender systems can be found. This lets u…

From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
https://www.churchleadership.c…

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

And, for context, here’s Ireland’s head of Internet regulation, describing his ideas for how age verification ought to work.
Note the plan involves legislating for children to send selfies to access porn sites.

new blog post: RSS Converter for Mastofeed
#Mastodon

US v. Google: during closing arguments, a judge queried both sides on ideas to limit Google's monopoly in search and said he expects to issue a ruling in August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-search-ai-antitrust-trial-57ec6fd…

Make your voices heard.
I also added something to a few bugs. @… really needs to go back to the drawing board and think about whose problems they are trying to solve. Because who is this proposal for? The only beneficiaries are AI companies.

Density, asymmetry and citation dynamics in scientific literature
Nathaniel Imel, Zachary Hafen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23366 https://

Density, asymmetry and citation dynamics in scientific literature
Scientific behavior is often characterized by a tension between building upon established knowledge and introducing novel ideas. Here, we investigate whether this tension is reflected in the relationship between the similarity of a scientific paper to previous research and its eventual citation rate. To operationalize similarity to previous research, we introduce two complementary metrics to characterize the local geometry of a publication's semantic neighborhood: (1) \emph{density} ($ρ$), def…

How protogens are designed.
Original: #protogen

Missing #TNC25 already?
We definitely had a tough time stepping off the rollercoaster 🎢 But all the connections, the chats, the ideas, the hugs, the insights and the energy of yet another incredible TNC week are still with us ❤️
🎠 Hop back for another ride and relive some of the TNC25 highlights by watching this recap video produced by our friends at PCSS.
And don't forget to ma…

Bill Moyers,
the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. He did not cite Moyers’ cause of death.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

Strong article about "the silence of the generals"
#usa

The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00937 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Stochastic Variance-Reduced Forward-Reflected-Backward Splitting Methods for Nonmonotone Generalized Equations
We develop two novel stochastic variance-reduction methods to approximate solutions of a class of nonmonotone [generalized] equations. Our algorithms leverage a new combination of ideas from the forward-reflected-backward splitting method and a class of unbiased variance-reduced estimators. We construct two new stochastic estimators within this class, inspired by the well-known SVRG and SAGA estimators. These estimators significantly differ from existing approaches used in minimax and variation…

I rarely share anything behind a paywall, but I'll make an exception for this obit for William Langewiesche. His writing was second to none. I read his father's Stick and Rudder as a ten-year-old (or so) and top-notch writing appears to have been a family trait. We've lost one of the best.
https://www.

Loving the study of artificial intelligence, and hating every single thing that people choose to build with the ideas that come out of it.

Update to my loftyassist product adventure, with a new twist.
At 116 users, 18 paid plans.
New twist? I might be getting hired by Lofty to do some contract work for them. Let's see what the terms look like, but if all looks good, I might be transferring over some of my lofty assist ideas onto lofty itself. Pretty funny turn of events.

The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch (Nicholas Bagley/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/supreme-court-trump-injunctions/683354/?gift=c04SMsUDu_5IHrILqcoSg28sKQdP6i7Erpt87QNMVVo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p12#a250628p12

An Algebraic Theory of Gapped Domain Wall Partons
Matthew Buican, Roman Geiko, Milo Moses, Bowen Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22544 https://

An Algebraic Theory of Gapped Domain Wall Partons
The entanglement bootstrap program has generated new quantum numbers associated with degrees of freedom living on gapped domain walls between topological phases in two dimensions. Most fundamental among these are the so-called "parton" quantum numbers, which give rise to a zoo of composite sectors. In this note, we propose a categorical description of partons. Along the way, we make contact with ideas from generalized symmetries and SymTFT.

The parallels with 1930s just keep coming.
"Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/hitler-public-order/683098/

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

“I did not set out to design a geodesic dome. I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers.”
— #BuckminsterFuller #DesignScience
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/design-science/design-science-primer/

Good ideas and good research take years to incubate, grow, and realise.
You need *time*.
Time to think, to try, to talk, to throw up and out 'silly' ideas and theories - some which aren't so silly in the end - to be bored, to revisit, to connect.
"We are witnessing the dismantling of a system that once made space for pure curiosity."

Tech geeks, I need help finding something: I want a USB-C switch. Something with a minimum of two inputs that can be switched to a third. So the switch will let you connect A to C or B to C.
I want to use it as a KVM: A & B are Macs, C is a Caldigit Hub.
Any ideas? Recommendations?

Designing the Future of Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring an AI-Empowered Scaffold System for Business Plan Development
Junhua Zhu, Lan Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23326

Designing the Future of Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring an AI-Empowered Scaffold System for Business Plan Development
Entrepreneurship education equips students to transform innovative ideas into actionable entrepreneurship plans, yet traditional approaches often struggle to provide the personalized guidance and practical alignment needed for success. Focusing on the business plan as a key learning tool and evaluation method, this study investigates the design needs for an AI-empowered scaffold system to address these challenges. Based on qualitative insights from educators and students, the findings highlight…

"Researchers call for urgent exploration of methods to cool Earth"
#Climate #ClimateChange

MEET BIANCA-IOANA MARCU, FPF EUROPE MANAGING DIRECTOR
https://fpf.org/blog/meet-bianca-ioana-marcu-fpf-europe-managing-director/
@…

Unpack AI’s environmental impact today at 11am EDT, from local vs global effects to how it stacks up against Netflix flights. Try out a new student-friendly tool brainstorm classroom ideas in this #MyFest25 webinar HT @…

I just finished Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings. It was good, but not great. It was too long, for one thing. The book also grows increasingly cynical as it goes on - something I could've done without. Still, it was full of interesting ideas and engaging characters.
If you want great, though, read Liu's first collection of short stories, The Paper Menagerie - it's absolutely brilliant.

This is worth reading (and it is short):
"For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/los-angeles-dress-rehearsal-trump/683078/

Trump’s Ominous Military Flex in Los Angeles
Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

Pakistan may have withdrawn its nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace prize, but maga-bot Buddy Carter, once again having no actual ideas of his own, steps up to fill the breach.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administr

Volume Entropy Rigidity for Random Groups at Low Densities
Dongming Hua (Merrick)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23364 https://arxiv.org/…

Volume Entropy Rigidity for Random Groups at Low Densities
We study the rigidity of the volume entropy for weighted word metrics on hyperbolic groups, building on a recent convexity result due to Cantrell-Tanaka. Using ideas from small cancellation theory, we give conditions under which a hyperbolic group admits a unique normalized weight minimizing the entropy. Moreover, we show that these conditions are generic for random groups at small densities, and that the unique minimizer of such a generic group is arbitrarily close to the uniform weight.

As the debate over the BBB moves to the Senate, the immediate imperative is to
expose the damage the bill does to millions of Trump’s voters
to benefit his Mar-a-Lago and crypto-wealthy friends.
But it’s also an occasion to shatter the illusion that Trump is some sort of policy innovator.
Extremism and authoritarianism are not new ideas, and his legislative program would be familiar to Calvin Coolidge. 

A New Working-Class GOP? If “Working-Class” Means $4.3 Million a Year!
Last year, Trump won praise for building a new GOP. But the Big, Beautiful Bill utterly shatters the illusion that he is some sort of brilliant policy innovator.

From Bytes to Ideas: Language Modeling with Autoregressive U-Nets
Mathurin Videau, Badr Youbi Idrissi, Alessandro Leite, Marc Schoenauer, Olivier Teytaud, David Lopez-Paz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14761

From Bytes to Ideas: Language Modeling with Autoregressive U-Nets
Tokenization imposes a fixed granularity on the input text, freezing how a language model operates on data and how far in the future it predicts. Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) and similar schemes split text once, build a static vocabulary, and leave the model stuck with that choice. We relax this rigidity by introducing an autoregressive U-Net that learns to embed its own tokens as it trains. The network reads raw bytes, pools them into words, then pairs of words, then up to 4 words, giving it a mul…

Been watching live tv for the past few hours. I’ve seen commercials for 4 movies in theaters. Three of them are live-action remakes of animated movies. We really are out of ideas aren’t we?

"Once you operationalize #management ideas in a real organization it necessarily should have differences from how it is operationalized elsewhere. As Deming said there are no effective simple recipes for management."

(Without the preachy tone) Information, knowledge, is not copyright, the form it's in may be and ideas are not IP but expressed methods of using them are.
🧵

Triadic Novelty: A Typology and Measurement Framework for Recognizing Novel Contributions in Science
Jin Ai, Richard S. Steinberg, Chao Guo, Filipi Nascimento Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17851

Triadic Novelty: A Typology and Measurement Framework for Recognizing Novel Contributions in Science
Scientific progress depends on novel ideas, but current reward systems often fail to recognize them. Many existing metrics conflate novelty with popularity, privileging ideas that fit existing paradigms over those that challenge them. This study develops a theory-driven framework to better understand how different types of novelty emerge, take hold, and receive recognition. Drawing on network science and theories of discovery, we introduce a triadic typology: Pioneers, who introduce entirely ne…

Entropic additive energy and entropy inequalities for sums and products
Rupert Li, Lampros Gavalakis, Ioannis Kontoyiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20813

Entropic additive energy and entropy inequalities for sums and products
Following a growing number of studies that, over the past 15 years, have established entropy inequalities via ideas and tools from additive combinatorics, in this work we obtain a number of new bounds for the differential entropy of sums, products, and sum-product combinations of continuous random variables. Partly motivated by recent work by Goh on the discrete entropic version of the notion of "additive energy", we introduce the additive energy of pairs of continuous random variables and prov…

@… @… Damn. Then I am out of ideas, unless you’d like to try JavaScript.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00937 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Stochastic Variance-Reduced Forward-Reflected-Backward Splitting Methods for Nonmonotone Generalized Equations
We develop two novel stochastic variance-reduction methods to approximate solutions of a class of nonmonotone [generalized] equations. Our algorithms leverage a new combination of ideas from the forward-reflected-backward splitting method and a class of unbiased variance-reduced estimators. We construct two new stochastic estimators within this class, inspired by the well-known SVRG and SAGA estimators. These estimators significantly differ from existing approaches used in minimax and variation…

Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.

The Everything App is a symptom of Nothing Management (part 1)
Leaders who surrender their point of view inevitably arrive at the same conclusion: we must solve every problem for every user. This approach demolishes the possibility of real impact.

Carroll Geometry Meets De Sitter Space via Holography
Chris D. A. Blair, Niels A. Obers, Ziqi Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19720 https://

Carroll Geometry Meets De Sitter Space via Holography
We explain how to relate the ideas of Carroll geometry, matrix theory on instantonic objects, and infinite boost limits of M-theory. Based on these new insights, we explore the implications for possible holographic constructions involving a de Sitter or flat space bulk. We show that Carroll-like geometry in a hypothetical de Sitter holography mirrors the recently realized important role played by Galilei-like geometry in matrix theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence. This also allows us to gener…

Determination of the potential by a fixed angle scattering data
Suliang Si
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21251 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Determination of the potential by a fixed angle scattering data
In this paper, we show that a compactly supported potential is uniquely determined by the far field pattern at a fixed angle. Our method is based on a new Carleman estimate and the ideas introduced by Bukhgeim and Klibanov on the use of Carleman estimates for inverse problems.

"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
https://

How to keep sea-monkeys alive
Little painting I did a couple of weeks ago. There’s a stick so it looks like a protest sign, but I cropped it out. Enjoying the newsletter? Gimme $2 for...

I’m looking for fun AI related projects that students with minimal technical skills (mostly humanities students) can handle, as a practical and instructive end of term project given the current situation.
The kinds of projects I have in mind are:
- Fine tuning an LLM for a particular use
- Building custom chatbots
- Doing"psychology" on LLM interactions.
The goal is for the project to be engaging and lead to further reflection. Ideas for such projects and links to resources much appreciated!

Reducible Iterated Graph Systems: multiscale-freeness and multifractals
Nero Ziyu Li, Frank Xin Hu, Thomas Britz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18073 https://

Reducible Iterated Graph Systems: multiscale-freeness and multifractals
Iterated Graph Systems (IGS) aims to transplant ideas from fractal geometry into graph theory. Building on this framework, we extend Edge IGS from the primitive to the reducible setting. Within this broader context, we formulate rigorous definitions of multifractality and multiscale-freeness for graph fractals, and we establish conditions that are equivalent to the occurrence of these two phenomena. We further determine the corresponding fractal and degree spectra, proving that both are finite …

What follows is a surprisingly elegant introduction to a lesser-known evolutionary theory,
wrapped in the curious biography of Sewall Wright
-- a geneticist with a lifelong fixation on guinea pigs.
I’ve occasionally wondered:
Why don’t we see fish wandering around on little legs, on their way to becoming something grander?
Wright put it more scientifically:
How do organisms evolve beneficial traits when the steps in between might be maladaptive?
I…

Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes
How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas

LIVE programming workshop open call: https://liveprog.org/
Deadline 21st July
Get involved!

Let's use Hanlon's Razor, and assume good faith in that the #inaturalist staff just needs a bit of help for how one could actually share decision-making power with a large online community.
To do that, I've written up some ideas of how other online communities (in #citizenscience, #openscience and beyond) have gone about doing that.
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/

When I say that I wish the bubble would burst so we could start having actual conversation, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about.
In the meantime, not being a researcher myself in any kind of position to critique the paper, I’m happy to just look at it and cherry-pick the conclusion that I think is unequivocally helpful regardless: we all (students in school, students of life) should cultivate active, engaged minds that work with ideas by •doing• and •creating• instead of simply passively receiving.

#COZMIC - Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions Beyond Cold Dark Matter / Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Fractional non-CDM Initial Conditions / Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Self-interacting Dark Matter with Suppressed Initial Conditions: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adceef / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adce83 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adce82 -> Scientists code Milky Way twin galaxies to better understand dark matter: https://today.usc.edu/scientists-code-milky-way-twin-galaxies-to-better-understand-dark-matter - USC researchers led the development of a computer simulation that gives astrophysicists a mechanism for testing ideas about dark matter and its behavior in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15959 https://arxi…

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Scientific breakthroughs are widely attributed to the novel recombination of existing ideas. Yet despite explosive global growth in scientific labor and publications -- creating more opportunities to reconfigure knowledge -- the rate of breakthroughs has not kept pace. To investigate this disconnect, we analyze 49 million scholarly works from 1960 to 2024 using measures of atypical recombination and disruptive innovation. Contrary to recombination theories, we find a robust negative correlation…

Spiderwebs on the Sphere and an Isoperimetric Theorem
Robert Connelly, Zhen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22336 https://arxiv.org/…

Spiderwebs on the Sphere and an Isoperimetric Theorem
Here we present a rigidity result in a global (semi-global, homotopy) setting for a restrictive class of polytopes, those that can be inscribed in a unit sphere, with some additional conditions. The proof of the rigidity result for cabled frameworks on the surface of the sphere uses classical isoperimetric ideas.

A look at 2025's AI models and what's ahead: OpenAI's o3 is a breakthrough, AI agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow down (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/summertime-outlook-o3s-nov…

Some ideas for what comes next
As releases slow down, it's time to think about what we got this year and where we are going. o3's search, agent vs model progress, and scaling's settling.

The Ideas Exchange
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

11 Vegan Summer Lunches #plantbased

11 Vegan Summer Lunches
It's that time of year again and you're probably ready for some fresh ideas for vegan summer lunches. Here are eleven to try.

"The language of blood and soil, which has once again become central to public debate in many democracies, is very powerful. It helps many people explain a complex world. It cannot easily be defeated or dismissed in one electoral cycle."
https://www.theatlantic.co…

Every Election Is Now Existential
A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

The Gauss-Manin system of an ICIS
Guillem Blanco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20280

The Gauss-Manin system of an ICIS
For an isolated complete intersection singularity (ICIS), we define and study its Gauss-Manin system and its associated Hodge filtration. We show the relation between the Hodge filtration and a generalized Brieskorn lattice and study conditions for the existence of a microlocal structure. Using these ideas, we relate the residue on the saturated Brieskorn lattice with a $b$-function introduced by Torrelli.

Thrilled to have won a Global Partnership Engagement Grant at the University of Adelaide. I'll be working with Leon Tikly, University of Bristol to expand ideas with our larger collective on a global network on epistemic justice.
Our larger collective involves partners from the Gulu University (Uganda), PRIA (India) and the University of Calgary and University of Victoria (Canada).
Great to be at an institution that values early development of big ideas.

"Donald Trump’s trade war is fast turning into a fiasco."
That was to be expected!
#Trump
#TarifWar

Why Trump Is Losing His Trade War
He picked a stupid fight with the whole world. The bad results are all on him.

"Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda."
He has companions.
#Trump
#TrumpAdministration

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

Republicans Have a Revenue Problem (Robert P. Beschel Jr/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/republicans-revenue-problem/683084/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p105#a250610p105

The Silence of the Generals -- As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg ... (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/silence-generals/683106/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweC9SKhWuL8c7oypTub1ifvo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p157#a250610p157

Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweH25hY2p_rsKIBWUs1l7ZV4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p59#a250608p59