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, la ligne économique du RN n’est pas éloignée des fondamentaux macronistes.
Le double discours du RN sur le pouvoir, revendiqué et redouté
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/09/15/le-double-discours…

Le double discours du RN sur le pouvoir, revendiqué et redouté
Le refus de Marine Le Pen d’occuper Matignon en situation de cohabitation, comme celui de Jordan Bardella de gouverner en majorité relative, interroge sur la volonté réelle de l’extrême droite d’exercer le pouvoir avant 2027.

Data van GGD, gemeente Groningen en Veilig Thuis in handen van Amerika en Israël. ‘Dit is ernstig, echt een blunder’ - #Sikkom
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FedBiF: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Bits Freezing
Shiwei Li, Qunwei Li, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li, Jianbin Lin, Wenliang Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10161

FedBiF: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Bits Freezing
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing local data. Despite its advantages, FL suffers from substantial communication overhead, which can affect training efficiency. Recent efforts have mitigated this issue by quantizing model updates to reduce communication costs. However, most existing methods apply quantization only after local training, introducing quantization errors into the trained parameters a…

““We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working.
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

I guess the new Red Sonja flick had only a VERY limited release here in the USA a day or two ago. I haven't seen anything about it at all advertising-wise (not that I really watch real/primetime TV).
EDIT: It was a ONE day release (thanks, @…!) on the 13th (sheesh) but luckily will be coming to video on demand on the 29th.

Red Sonja (2025)
A young girl rises from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared warrior woman of all time: the She-Devil with a Sword.

"Here Comes the Makeup Tutorial You Asked For!": Exploring Communication Strategies and Viewer Engagement in Beauty Videos on Rednote
Xueer Lin, Chenyu Li, Yuhan Lyu, Zhicong Lu, Zhenhui Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10364

"Here Comes the Makeup Tutorial You Asked For!": Exploring Communication Strategies and Viewer Engagement in Beauty Videos on Rednote
More and more people, especially females, create and view beauty videos covering topics like makeup tutorials and vlogs on social media platforms. Understanding the communication strategies that creators use in these videos and how they affect viewers' engagement can help spread beauty knowledge. By coding 352 beauty videos in Rednote, this study presents a comprehensive taxonomy of communication strategies used by the creators, such as using home as the video background and displaying makeup e…

Quantum Communication with Quantum Dots Beyond Telecom Wavelengths via Hollow-Core Fibers
Lorenzo Carosini, Francesco Giorgino, Patrik I. Sund, Lena M. Hansen, Rene R. Hamel, Lee A. Rozema, Francesco Poletti, Radan Slav\'ik, Philip Walther, Christopher Hilweg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11889

Quantum Communication with Quantum Dots Beyond Telecom Wavelengths via Hollow-Core Fibers
Quantum dot single-photon sources are promising for quantum communication. Yet, the most advanced devices operate near 900 nm, where standard single-mode fibers experience significant losses. We address this by employing a hollow-core fiber engineered for low-loss transmission at quantum dot wavelengths, with measured loss of 0.65 dB/km and potentially as low as 0.12 dB/km near 934 nm. The fiber also supports strong classical signals at 1550 nm without adding Raman noise. Using this platform, w…

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

Mali: où en sont les négociations avec les jihadistes pour la levée du blocus?
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20251009-mali-où-en-sont-les-négociations-avec-les-jihadistes-pour-la-levée-du-blocus

Mali: où en sont les négociations avec les jihadistes pour la levée du blocus?
Début septembre, le Jnim, lié à al-Qaïda, a décrété un embargo sur les importations de carburant au Mali. Depuis, des camions-citernes sont incendiés quasi quotidiennement. Les jihadistes imposent également un blocus à Kayes et Nioro du Sahel, à la frontière sénégalaise. L'armée escorte des convois pour tenter d'assurer la circulation des marchandises, l'un d'eux a pu arriver à Bamako mardi 7 octobre. En parallèle, des contacts ont été établis avec le Jnim pour obtenir une l…

FedRP: A Communication-Efficient Approach for Differentially Private Federated Learning Using Random Projection
Mohammad Hasan Narimani, Mostafa Tavassolipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10041

FedRP: A Communication-Efficient Approach for Differentially Private Federated Learning Using Random Projection
Federated learning (FL) offers an innovative paradigm for collaborative model training across decentralized devices, such as smartphones, balancing enhanced predictive performance with the protection of user privacy in sensitive areas like Internet of Things (IoT) and medical data analysis. Despite its advantages, FL encounters significant challenges related to user privacy protection against potential attacks and the management of communication costs. This paper introduces a novel federated le…