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EU's next Russia sanctions package won't include major energy sales curbs, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/eus-next-russia-sanctions-package.html

"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm

Eine rationalistische begründete Ethik läuft Gefahr, die Grenzen des gesellschaftlich erwarteten oder erlaubten zu sprengen, da sie über dem Zweck keine höhere Instanz kennt. Bleibt sie ohne weitere Einhegung durch gesellschaftlice Strukturen kann sie nahezu beliebig eskalieren:
"A rationalist virtue is “taking ideas seriously”: when you are convinced of a belief, you notice all its implications and act on them. Another rationalist virtue is “agency”: taking actions to pursue your…

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.

»The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”«
Read in the most recent @… newsletter. The researc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

This the Johnson Museum of Cζoζfζfζeζeζ Art at Cornell, Note the strange blobs you see on the lower surface of the overhang are an art installation that draws pictures with lights turned on and off
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On Graham's rearrangement conjecture over $\mathbb{F}_2^n$
Benjamin Bedert, Matija Buci\'c, Noah Kravitz, Richard Montgomery, Alp M\"uyesser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18254

On Graham's rearrangement conjecture over $\mathbb{F}_2^n$
A sequence $s_1,s_2,\ldots, s_k$ of elements of a group $G$ is called a valid ordering if the partial products $s_1, s_1 s_2, \ldots, s_1\cdots s_k$ are all distinct. A long-standing problem in combinatorial group theory asks whether, for a given group $G$, every subset $S \subseteq G\setminus \{\mathrm{id}\}$ admits a valid ordering; the instance of the additive group $\mathbb{F}_p$ is the content of a well-known 1971 conjecture of Graham. Most partial progress to date has concerned the edge c…

Is anyone of you working in an enterprise company, and you use #Mattermost for the complete company for communication instead of #Slack or #Teams?
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On The Road - To Xi’An/ Mordern Relics
在路上 - 去西安/ 现代遗风
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