2025-08-26 19:23:38
I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
Zhongyi Bai, Jens Emil Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Andrew Irlitti, Jarrod Knibbe, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17676
Tom 'Brady Rules' end. NFL to allow Fox analyst to attend production meetings: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577539/2025/08/27/tom-brady-rules-fox-nfl-2025/
Tom 'Brady Rules' end. NFL to allow Fox analyst to attend production meetings: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577539/2025/08/27/tom-brady-rules-fox-nfl-2025/
Micah Parsons attends Cowboys meetings ahead of preseason finale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-attends-dallas-cowboys-meetings-ahead-nfl-preseason-finale
Trump's proposal – Can meetings really end the war?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/trumps-proposal-can-meetings-really.html
Perplexity debuts Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook, which can manage inboxes, schedule meetings, and more, for subscribers of its $200/month Max plan (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.
Der Versuch, während des Board-Meetings zu meditieren, scheiterte grandios. 😡
In light of recent events, catnip is no longer allowed at Scrum meetings
ClearMask: Noise-Free and Naturalness-Preserving Protection Against Voice Deepfake Attacks
Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Weikang Ding, Qiben Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17660
AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees https://www.404media.co/ai-at-the-worlds-biggest-games-event-booked-random-meetings-for-attendees/
Followed up my 18h long trip to Paris by cramming the day with as many meetings with friends and former colleagues as possible, virtually from the second I arrived. 😍
Also the perfect way to stay awake to try to minimize the jet lag, but now it's soon time to crash. 💤 😂
Trump on Tuesday canceled a meeting with Democratic congressional leaders to avoid a shutdown over government funding, arguing it could not “possibly be productive”.
The reversal leaves the two parties in Washington without a solution to keep the government open past Sept. 30,
when the current fiscal year ends and funding runs out.
The meeting scheduled for Thursday was intended to negotiate a path forward.
NFL could award Super Bowl 63 in 2029 to Las Vegas at March meetings https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/nfl-could-award-super-bowl-63-in-2029-to-las-vegas-at-march-meetings-3511454/
Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard:
"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."
Ok, I agree but on one condition: "everyone" means EVERYONE. Police, military, government, politicians, lobbyists, 100% 7x24 transparency. No closed door meetings, no off the record, no sly meets in a pub. Everyone.
Anything else is sinister.
SHOCKING! MEETINGS WITH TRUMP: FROM ZELENSKYY IN WASHINGTON TO PUTIN IN BUDAPEST: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/shocking-meetings-with-trump-from.html
You're not ready for "agentic" workflows if you don't even have "agendic" meetings
If this doesn't convince you people to ditch ALL AMERICAN SERVICES ecosystem, what will?
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115248992415556991
Oh hell no! If they allow it at work I will be asking how I can turn it off. There are times when we cannot record or use transcriptions for parts of meetings.
https://www.theverge.com/news/781278/microsoft-teams-copilot-ai-agents
"Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
Tua Tagovailoa questions Dolphins' leadership, calls out teammates for skipping meetings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711528/2025/10/12/miami-dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-player-meetings/
Vision Pro: Webex mit 3D-Modellen in Meetings
Cisco erweitert Webex um 3D-Kollaboration für die Apple Vision Pro. Teams können gemeinsam 3D-Modelle in Echtzeit betrachten und bearbeiten.
https://www.
Findings of the Third Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) Challenge
Kartik Shinde, Laurent Besacier, Ondrej Bojar, Thibaut Thonet, Tirthankar Ghosal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13814 ht…
Hadn't seen this variation before.
Recently, a colleague has had that thing where, un-asked-for by them, their "AI notetaker" tries to go to all the meetings in their calendar. This time it was double trouble: they somehow had _two_ bots trying to come into every meeting citing their name. Consequently, a few of us have had to boot out these bots at the start of a meeting, when the person themself wasn't there.
Yesterday, the _real_ person tried to go to a meeting. The host (who was a bit flustered due to connection problems) mistook their name for the bot appearing yet again, and kicked them out! so they missed the meeting!
(I found out only afterwards that they'd been trying to get on, and what had happened.)
=
Luckily it wasn't a meeting which hinged on this one person's presence, so not super high stakes. I was just thinking about it again now, and the phenomenon of "unwanted bot-behaviour causes knock-on problem". It reminded me of this more-troublesome episode, which I'd also read about yesterday:
#software #bots #SoCalledAI
Testing AI tools for journalism work: LLMs worked well for short summaries but poorly for long ones, and scientific research tools lacked depth and consistency (Hilke Schellmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/i-tested-how-well-ai-tool…
The Call for Papers (and posters) is now open for the #Indiana #MAA section meeting, Sat. October 18 at Taylor University.
https://www.indiana.maa.org/…
#Meetings mit Menschen, die man nicht mag und die einen nicht mögen und für die man nur optional eingeladen ist. 🥳
AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi
Lviv mayor says he found bug in office after meetings with top Ukrainian officials: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/lviv-mayor-says-he-found.html
New CDC chief was part of meetings where officials pressed ousted leader on vaccines (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/jim-oneill-cdc-vaccine-meetings?Date=20250829&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p65#a250829p65
Take note, #Utah. There will be two #Redistricting committee meetings open to the public. Click the link for where/when/how to attend.
#utpol
As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.
@axbom@axbom.meThe way people share their screens in online meetings has to be a critical security issue in many organisations. Inadvertently showing their calendar or email, or demoing other sensitive content while the screen is being recorded – I’ve seen it all. Many employees need a primer on how to share their screen in a safe and responsible way.
yes, confront your bully in high school, have him sit through school meetings for hurtful statements, otherwise he might turn into steven miller
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows | Lobbying | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/uk-labour-ministers-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-analysis
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I think my most-sent email of all time is "Does Tuesday at 2 pm work for you?" followed closely by "No worries, how about Wednesday?" 🫠
But what if you could just... not do that anymore?
There’s a scheduling tool hiding in plain sight in Gmail that ends all this nonsense. You offer times, they click once, and poof—it's in the calendar.
I filmed a quick guide on it because this needs to be public knowledge:
Pete Carroll refutes report about Tom Brady's meetings with Chip Kelly https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/pete-carroll-refutes-report-tom-bradys-meetings-chip-kelly/0e3f571242…
From the barrage of "news coverage" of the Putin/Trump meeting and today's meeting for everyone else investing in Ukraine, I have to wonder, did anyone actually expect anything to come from these meetings?
Cowboys HC Brian Schottenheimer Shares His Thoughts on Tom Brady Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-tom-brady-meetings/?adt_ei=[email]
Personalized Real-time Jargon Support for Online Meetings
Yifan Song, Wing Yee Au, Hon Yung Wong, Brian P. Bailey, Tal August
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10239 https://
Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year,
claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India,
“or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger.
Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.
An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities
Claudio Fontana, Simone Pavarana, Thorsten Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15752 https://arxiv.o…
"Rep. Tim Burchett told NOTUS that he still sleeps in his office because it helps him stay productive and get to meetings early."
MAGA rep busted after story on office sleepovers curiously changes - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-2673878919/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Aug.12.2025_8.17pm
Inside the Closed-Door Meetings of the N.F.L.’s Billionaire Owners https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/nfl-owners-trump.html
#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Den ersten Schultag mit meetings back to back to back to back tatsächlich überlebt
🙂 Der Sparverkäufer freut sich, dass ich wieder da bin
🙂 Abends aufm Balkon chillen
Dolphins Mike McDaniel Provides Clarity on Player-Led Meetings https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mike-mcdaniel-coaches-player-led-meetings/?adt_ei=[email]
Slovak PM Fico plans meetings with Putin, Zelensky this week: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/slovak-pm-fico-plans-meetings.html
Wann immer es um Veränderungen geht, besteht ein Spektrum, in dem diese diskutierbar sind: Auf der einen Seite, sollten Veränderungen die gewünschten Verbesserungen mit sich bringen. Auf der anderen Seite, müssen sie in den bestehenden Strukturen beschlossen und umgesetzt werden können.
Das bringt Agenten dieser Veränderung in eine Zwickmühle: Machen sie einen zu radikalen Vorschlag, der tatsächliche Veränderung mit sich bringt, wird dieser schnell abgelehnt. Machen sie von Beginn an …
@axbom@axbom.meIt all should have been stopped the instant he started openly monetizing his hotel blocks from the White House
and sending his children to represent the United States of America at international meetings.
But we decided none of the laws, rules, or norms apply this One Special Boy 🤷♂️
https://
Spatially-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization for Meetings
Li Li, Ming Cheng, Hongyu Zhang, Juan Liu, Ming Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09505 https://
East and #SoutheastAsia have the most populated time zones in the world.
Yet most so-called "global" #civilsociety calls or meetings are set at times that are incredibly inconvenient for those of us here. And, as a result, you see so few
12:21 Minuten über viel zu viel "synchronen Austausch" (aka remote meetings)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/markus-albers-die-optimierungsluege-warum-wir-keine-zeit-fuer-die-arbeit-haben-100.html
Whew. Drove 326mi in the last 24hrs to take 3 meetings. Exhausted & car running on fumes. Just barely made it into a gas station.
... then Spotify dropped these bangers on me & I think I'll be alright.
🎶 Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins
https://open.spotify.com/…
At Berlin Buzzwords, Danica Fine discussed how to create a custom on-air sign using Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Apache Iceberg™. Discover how to capture events such as Zoom meetings and camera usage with Python, process data using FlinkSQL, analyse trends from your Iceberg tables, and integrate everything into a practical IoT project that can scale effectively.
Watch the full session:
Unbroken: Meetings in the circle of Promote Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/unbroken-meetings-in-the-circle.html
Morning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!
The head of the British armed forces will tell his American counterparts
the UK is prepared to send troops to defend Ukraine’s skies and seas
but not to the frontline with Russia,
as planning intensifies for a postwar settlement.
Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff, will on Wednesday attend meetings at the Pentagon
designed to finalise what 30 different countries are willing to commit to Ukraine’s national security.
Radakin is expected to
co…
Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (Ann-Marie Alcšntara/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-m
Dialog nach David Bohm. Bohm war Physiker und hat u. a. mit Einstein zusammengearbeitet.
Er sagt, dass wir in Gesprächen/Meetings immer auf unserem Standpunkt beharren, ihn durchsetzen/verteidigen wollen. Dadurch kämen wir als Gruppe/Gesellschaft nicht weiter. Weil niemand zuhört.
Bessere Erfahrung hat er damit gemacht, wenn eine ihren Standpunkt ausführlich erötert, andere ihr (geistig) folgen, nur zuhören. Und das erstmal so stehen lassen. 1/2
Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/…
This reminds me of when I confused a (long deceased) country music singer with a (recently deceased) anti-cyberbullying influencer and got brigaded by the latter’s Twitter followers.
I think that was the first time I received a death threat online. I look back on it now with a touch of nostalgia. https://mastodon.soc…
Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Laura Pedrouzo-Rodriguez, Pedro Delgado-DeRobles, Luis F. Gomez, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00748
AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups
Chandler Campbell, Bernie Boscoe, Tuan Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05648 https://arx…
Ukraine preparing long-term contract for 25 Patriot systems after meetings in US, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/ukraine-preparing-longterm-contract-for.html
Geheime Superkraft: Meetings verkürzen
Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
Ekai Hashimoto, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kohei Nagira, Shun Shiramatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02075 https://
Despite legal rulings, California school district tries to revive Christian prayers at meetings
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/despite-legal-rulings-california
NFL owners put to rest concerns over Tom Brady’s role with Fox, Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/nfl-owners-put-to-rest-concerns-over-tom-bradys-role-with-fox-raiders-3511516/
Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/
Workation, day one: headset fell apart
So, no online meetings for the next view weeks, I guess?
#AcademicChatter #AchievementOfTheDay
Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees
Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Cristina Aggazzotti, Ashi Garg, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12780 https://a…
Can AI agents understand spoken conversations about data visualizations in online meetings?
Rizul Sharma, Tianyu Jiang, Seokki Lee, Jillian Aurisano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00245
Johnson: I'm not giving 'trade secrets' to Brady https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46294186/bears-ben-johnson-not-worried-tom-brady-production-meeting
OH on slack
User Story
As Overloaded Olivia, the backend engineer,
I want clear, actionable requirements with business context, so that I can implement the correct solution without burning half a day in meetings or wild guessing.
Acceptance Criteria
1. The story includes functional requirements (not just vibes).
2. Success/failure states are defined happy path edge cases).
3. Any dependencies or blockers are identified.
Bonus: PM/Designer reviewed this and it’s not just a draft in disguise.
#swe #sre #devops #devoops @… @…
Will Las Vegas be awarded another Super Bowl this week? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/football/super-bowl/will-las-vegas-be-awarded-another-super-bowl-this-week-3510481/
"'We can and will continue to pursue the same goal we have had from the outset — for each member of Congress to represent both urban and rural voices,' Schultz and Adams said."
Objecting to this reasoning is how Proposition 4 passed with the majority of #Utah voters in 2018.
We know this because of how many rural Republican constituents showed up at public meetings th…
Tua apologizes for comments: 'Made a mistake' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46607089/tua-tagovailoa-apologizes-dolphins-teammates-comments
EEND-SAA: Enrollment-Less Main Speaker Voice Activity Detection Using Self-Attention Attractors
Wen-Yung Wu, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Tai-Shih Chi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11957 https:…
Chinese banks continue to block payments from Russia despite Putin’s meetings with Xi Jinping: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/chinese-banks-continue-to-block.html
Here are the three primary kinds of community-based events we’ll be sponsoring during 31 Days of Action:
Open/community lab meetings over Zoom or live-streamed lab tours/demos
Teach-ins at local community centers, churches, parks, basically anywhere that’s not a college campus
Stand Up For Science tabling and demos that include “Ask a Scientist” booths,
pond water under a microscope,
strawberry DNA extraction,
egg drop competitions, …
Hill returns to Dolphins' facility, speaks to team https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46477683/tyreek-hill-returns-dolphins-facility-speaks-team
Cowboys, playoff hopes will walk into the Lions Den in Week 14 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-playoff-hopes-will-walk-into-the-lions-den-in-week-14
"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Nadia Nahar, Chenyang Yang, Yanxin Chen, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Ken Holstein, Motahhare Eslami, Christian K\"astner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22858
FastEnhancer: Speed-Optimized Streaming Neural Speech Enhancement
Sunghwan Ahn, Jinmo Han, Beom Jun Woo, Nam Soo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21867 https://