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Source: Blackstone has withdrawn from the consortium led by Susquehanna and General Atlantic seeking to invest in TikTok US, after considering a minority stake (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/blackstone-d…

Trump's Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-nih-grants-cut.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p139#a250616p139

Raiders' Tom Brady on Opening Hall of Excellence https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-jackie-robinson-new-england-patriots

Transit for All: Mapping Equitable Bike2Subway Connection using Region Representation Learning
Min Namgung, JangHyeon Lee, Fangyi Ding, Yao-Yi Chiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15113

Transit for All: Mapping Equitable Bike2Subway Connection using Region Representation Learning
Ensuring equitable public transit access remains challenging, particularly in densely populated cities like New York City (NYC), where low-income and minority communities often face limited transit accessibility. Bike-sharing systems (BSS) can bridge these equity gaps by providing affordable first- and last-mile connections. However, strategically expanding BSS into underserved neighborhoods is difficult due to uncertain bike-sharing demand at newly planned ("cold-start") station locations and …

Mitigating Category Imbalance: Fosafer System for the Multimodal Emotion and Intent Joint Understanding Challenge
Honghong Wang, Yankai Wang, Dejun Zhang, Jing Deng, Rong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11362

Mitigating Category Imbalance: Fosafer System for the Multimodal Emotion and Intent Joint Understanding Challenge
This paper presents Fosafer approach to the Track 2 Mandarin in the Multimodal Emotion and Intent Joint Understandingchallenge, which focuses on achieving joint recognition of emotion and intent in Mandarin, despite the issue of category imbalance. To alleviate this issue, we use a variety of data augmentation techniques across text, video, and audio modalities. Additionally, we introduce the SampleWeighted Focal Contrastive loss, designed to address the challenges of recognizing minority class…

Addressing Data Imbalance in Transformer-Based Multi-Label Emotion Detection with Weighted Loss
Xia Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11384 https://

Addressing Data Imbalance in Transformer-Based Multi-Label Emotion Detection with Weighted Loss
This paper explores the application of a simple weighted loss function to Transformer-based models for multi-label emotion detection in SemEval-2025 Shared Task 11. Our approach addresses data imbalance by dynamically adjusting class weights, thereby enhancing performance on minority emotion classes without the computational burden of traditional resampling methods. We evaluate BERT, RoBERTa, and BART on the BRIGHTER dataset, using evaluation metrics such as Micro F1, Macro F1, ROC-AUC, Accurac…

"Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England

Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat - Carbon Brief
Neighbourhoods in England that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can (sometimes) change the world, and twice as often when done by peaceful means
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

In India’s deportation drive, Muslim men recount being tossed into the sea

India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority
was marked by
home demolitions, arbitrary detentions,
allegations of torture
and a lack of due process.
https://www.

In India’s deportation drive, Muslim men recount being tossed into the sea
India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process.

Optimizing Districting Plans to Maximize Majority-Minority Districts via IPs and Local Search
Daniel Brous, David Shmoys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07446 https://

Optimizing Districting Plans to Maximize Majority-Minority Districts via IPs and Local Search
In redistricting litigation, effective enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has often involved providing the court with districting plans that display a larger number of majority-minority districts than the current proposal (as was true, for example, in what followed Allen v. Milligan concerning the congressional districting plan for Alabama in 2023). Recent work by Cannon et al. proposed a heuristic algorithm for generating plans to optimize majority-minority districts, which they called short…

wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880

Mouse position portal · Issue #880 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Some apps (a small minority, I will admit) have features that pair with being able to track the mouse. One such app is the Virtual Puppet Project's mouse tracker plugin, which uses the mouse instea...

MLB acquires a minority stake in Jomboy Media and partners with the baseball-centered media company to collaborate on content activations, IP growth, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/…

MLB Buys Stake in Jomboy Media, Partners for Digital Content
MLB inked a pact with Jimmy O'Brien's Jomboy Media, under which the league is acquiring a stake in his company and collaborating on digital content.

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was not advised to resign from firm seeking NFL minority ownership: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6486656/2025/07/10/nflpa-lloyd-howell-jr-carlyle-group/

Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top-gop-map-drawer-and-right-wing-law-firm-team-up-to-target-minority-voters-in-texas/

"Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Houses #Climate

😠 Minority government the new normal in Tasmania as voters turn away from major parties
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/20/minority-government-the-new-normal-in-tasmania-as-voters…

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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Towards Real-World Rumor Detection: Anomaly Detection Framework with Graph Supervised Contrastive Learning
Chaoqun Cui, Caiyan Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07205 https://

Towards Real-World Rumor Detection: Anomaly Detection Framework with Graph Supervised Contrastive Learning
Current rumor detection methods based on propagation structure learning predominately treat rumor detection as a class-balanced classification task on limited labeled data. However, real-world social media data exhibits an imbalanced distribution with a minority of rumors among massive regular posts. To address the data scarcity and imbalance issues, we construct two large-scale conversation datasets from Weibo and Twitter and analyze the domain distributions. We find obvious differences betwee…

Former MVP Has Bold Take on Raiders' Tom Brady https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-matt-ryan-atlanta-falcons-tom-brady

Mitigating Shortcut Learning with InterpoLated Learning
Michalis Korakakis, Andreas Vlachos, Adrian Weller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05527 https://…

Mitigating Shortcut Learning with InterpoLated Learning
Empirical risk minimization (ERM) incentivizes models to exploit shortcuts, i.e., spurious correlations between input attributes and labels that are prevalent in the majority of the training data but unrelated to the task at hand. This reliance hinders generalization on minority examples, where such correlations do not hold. Existing shortcut mitigation approaches are model-specific, difficult to tune, computationally expensive, and fail to improve learned representations. To address these issu…

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Shihao Fu, Yan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24079 https://

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Test cases are indispensable for conducting effective fault localization (FL). However, test cases in practice are severely class imbalanced, i.e. the number of failing test cases (i.e. minority class) is much less than that of passing ones (i.e. majority class). The severe class imbalance between failing and passing test cases have hindered the FL effectiveness. To address this issue, we propose PCD-DAug: a Principal Context-aware Diffusion guided Data Augmentation approach that generate syn…

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies #UnitedStates

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies
Researchers testing urine from 2- to 4-year-olds in four U.S. states uncovered 96 different chemicals, many of them unmonitored and linked to hormone and brain disruption. Legacy toxins like triclosan are slowly declining, yet replacements such as DINCH plasticizer and modern pesticides are rising. Toddlers—especially the youngest, later-born, and those from minority groups—often carried higher levels than their own mothers. Scientists urge expanded biomonitoring and stricter regulations be…

Pondering how to best prepare for the upcoming onslaught of Neuralink Blindsight brain implant hype/PR after the first blind patient receives one in UAE. Most scientists are open to reason, but they make up a tiny minority under funding stress, while the mass media profit from maximizing hype.
https://www.artifi…

A movie I'm really psyched to rewatch soon is one of my favorites, Minority Report (despite my dislike of Tom Cruise), to see both the things I thought when I saw it as 'this is tech that basically already exists' (personally tailored ads) to tech we have now that's probably worse than that in terms of #surveillance and

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blasts Republicans and the Trump agenda bill in an hourslong floor speech (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-blasts-republicans-trump-agenda-rcna216731
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p56#a250703p56

Tether acquires a minority stake in MiCA-licensed Spanish crypto exchange Bit2Me and is leading a €30M funding round that will close in the coming weeks (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366000/tether

"If one uses the word “fascism”, people accuse you of hysteria – but isn’t this precisely what fascism looks like? A minority group is unfairly demonised until public opinion sours sufficiently for lawmakers to impose restrictions on said group"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Juno Dawson: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman
I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

Droplet-gas phases and their dynamical formation in particle imbalanced mixtures
Jose Carlos Pelayo, George A. Bougas, Thom\'as Fogarty, Thomas Busch, Simeon I. Mistakidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09314

Droplet-gas phases and their dynamical formation in particle imbalanced mixtures
We explore the ground state phase diagram and nonequilibrium dynamics of genuine two-component particle-imbalanced droplets in both isotropic and anisotropic three-dimensional confinements. A gradual transition from mixed droplet-gas to gas configurations is revealed as the average intercomponent attraction decreases or the transverse confinement becomes tighter. Within the mixed structures, a specific majority fragment binds to the minority droplet, satisfying the density ratio locking conditi…

Minority Representation in Network Rankings: Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Fairness
Hui Shen, Peter W. MacDonald, Eric D. Kolaczyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01136

Minority Representation in Network Rankings: Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Fairness
Networks, composed of nodes and their connections, are widely used to model complex relationships across various fields. Centrality metrics often inform decisions such as identifying key nodes or prioritizing resources. However, networks frequently suffer from missing or incorrect edges, which can systematically centrality-based decisions and distort the representation of certain protected groups. To address this issue, we introduce a formal definition of minority representation, measured as th…

Chiefs QB praises Raiders minority owner, star pass rusher https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/chiefs-qb-praises-raiders-minority-owner-star-pass-rusher-3393974/

SCOTUS Could Be Set to End Key Protection for Minority Voters (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-could-be-set-to-end-key-protection-for-minority-voters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p121#a250801p121

Reflective Verbal Reward Design for Pluralistic Alignment
Carter Blair, Kate Larson, Edith Law
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17834 https://

Reflective Verbal Reward Design for Pluralistic Alignment
AI agents are commonly aligned with "human values" through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), where a single reward model is learned from aggregated human feedback and used to align an agent's behavior. However, human values are not homogeneous--different people hold distinct and sometimes conflicting values. Aggregating feedback into a single reward model risks disproportionately suppressing minority preferences. To address this, we present a novel reward modeling approach for …

Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
...
Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

Water Heterostructure Photodetector for Calculation of Semiconductor Minority Carrier Lifetime
Can Wang, Renyu Yang, Huikai Zhong, Mingjia Zhi, Shisheng Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19857

Water Heterostructure Photodetector for Calculation of Semiconductor Minority Carrier Lifetime
The minority carrier lifetime of semiconductor materials is a crucial performance parameter for optoelectronic devices. However, the existing minority carrier lifetime measurement techniques necessitate delicate optical measurement systems and harmful treatment of the samples, which will definitely cause great constraints on the further development of the semiconductor industry. Here, an off-junction graphene/water/silicon photodetector is realized based on the charming dynamic polarization pro…

"U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Saturday said Democrats will force the Republicans' 940-page tax and spending bill to be read out loud in full on the Senate floor."
- @…
Good move Schumer!

Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case,
🔥Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151301

Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question #ELB
The Supreme Court just issued this order: Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, as it had been found to face Section 2 VRA liability for not creating that district. … Continue reading Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question →

Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#DJT #DEI targeting of higher edu is working, as #Harvard #Faculty quietly purge former

Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson
The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.

Commanders' Wagner invests in WNBA's Storm https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/45805429/commanders-bobby-wagner-becomes-minority-investor-wnba-storm

A profile of Anna Gomez, the FCC's lone Democrat, who considers that as minority commissioner, "the power that you have, really, is your ability to dissent" (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anna-gomez-democrat-fcc-para…

Anna Gomez’s Lonely Fight
As the FCC’s sole Democrat, she’s been outspoken about protecting the First Amendment. Getting her way has been tough.

Raiders' Tom Brady to Receive Another Illustrious Honor https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-bill-belichick-new-england-patriots

You should #protest this Saturday. If ever there was a time to do it, it's now. Do it while you still can!
Making a sign is kind of fun the first time, but honestly the protests are tedious. So just show up. Bring a book. Stay near the edges. But show up!
It really can makea difference:

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Supreme Court signals it may rule on law protecting power of minority voters (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/02/supreme-court-louisiana-voting-rights-act/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p47#a250802p47

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
Shenzhi Wang, Le Yu, Chang Gao, Chujie Zheng, Shixuan Liu, Rui Lu, Kai Dang, Xionghui Chen, Jianxin Yang, Zhenru Zhang, Yuqiong Liu, An Yang, Andrew Zhao, Yang Yue, Shiji Song, Bowen Yu, Gao Huang, Junyang Lin
https://arx…

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful approach to enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), while its mechanisms are not yet well understood. In this work, we undertake a pioneering exploration of RLVR through the novel perspective of token entropy patterns, comprehensively analyzing how different tokens influence reasoning performance. By examining token entropy patterns in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, we observe that o…

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #PrideMonth #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Insider Reflects Impact Of Raiders Minority Owner Tom Brady https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-mark-davis-chip-kelly-training-camp

Quasilinear Wave "Reflection" Due to Proton Heating by an Imbalanced Turbulent Cascade
Philip A. Isenberg, Bernard J. Vasquez, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00141

Quasilinear Wave "Reflection" Due to Proton Heating by an Imbalanced Turbulent Cascade
We investigate the quasilinear effects of the resonant wave-particle interaction under conditions of imbalanced turbulent heating in the collisionless coronal hole. We find that velocity-space transport of protons from the heated part of the distribution leads to strong wave growth in the minority (sunward) direction. In the present quasilinear analysis, the "reflected" waves grow to unphysical levels, indicating the necessity of including nonlinear processes. This mechanism is likely to be imp…

ESPN makes a minority investment in Premier Lacrosse League, marking a shift in the network's strategy as it looks to invest in areas beyond traditional TV (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/espn-premier-lacrosse-league-media-right…

ESPN takes minority stake in Premier Lacrosse League
This marks a shift in ESPN's strategy.

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Reydne Santos, Rafa Prado, Ana Paula de Holanda Silva, Kiev Gama, Fernando Castor, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00142

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise awareness about barriers and biases against underrepresented groups in OSS. Objective: This study aims to analyze the knowledge about minority groups in OSS projects. We investigated which groups were studied in the OSS literature, the study methods used, their im…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Minority Band:
🎵 Tasty Tune (Edit)
#MinorityBand
https://ppudc.bandcamp.com/album/tasty-tune

Warren Statement on Bipartisan Housing Package Advancing Unanimously Out of Banking Committee (United States Committee on Banking ...)
https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-statement-on-bipartisan-housing-package-advancing-unanimously-out-of-banking-committee
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p165#a250729p165

Raiders' Brady Weighs In on Next Super Bowl QB https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-lamar-jackson-josh-allen-pete-carroll

AOC and Republican Tim Burchett introduced a bill to stop members of congress from enriching themselves
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) agrees:
it's "time to ban Congressional Stock trading"
Sign the petition to ban corrupt congressional stock trading
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A Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach for Minority Instrument Detection
Dylan Sechet, Francesca Bugiotti, Matthieu Kowalski, Edouard d'H\'erouville, Filip Langiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21167

A Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach for Minority Instrument Detection
Identifying instrument activities within audio excerpts is vital in music information retrieval, with significant implications for music cataloging and discovery. Prior deep learning endeavors in musical instrument recognition have predominantly emphasized instrument classes with ample data availability. Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability of hierarchical classification in detecting instrument activities in orchestral music, even with limited fine-grained annotations at the instr…

Raiders' Brady on Development of College QBs Going into the NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-draft-tom-brady-pete-carroll-john-spytek-new-england-patriots

KKR acquires a significant minority in Swedish travel tech firm Etraveli, sources say valuing it at ~€2.7B; Etraveli sells plane tickets to ~50M users per year (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

FCC filing: Larry Ellison will hold a minority voting interest of ~35.5% in the combined Paramount-Skydance company, without any veto or special voting rights (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/larry-ellison-paramount-skydance-merger-voting-right…

Larry Ellison to Hold 35.5% of Family's Voting Rights in New Paramount, National Amusements After Skydance Merger Closes
The Oracle chairman will not have any "veto rights, or any special or outsized voting rights," per an amendment filed with the FCC

Patrick Mahomes Sounds Off on Raiders' Minority Owner Tom Brady https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/patrick-mahomes-las-vegas-tom-brady-new-england-patriots

Watermark in the Classroom: A Conformal Framework for Adaptive AI Usage Detection
Yangxinyu Xie, Xuyang Chen, Zhimei Ren, Weijie J. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23113 https://

Watermark in the Classroom: A Conformal Framework for Adaptive AI Usage Detection
As artificial intelligence tools become ubiquitous in education, maintaining academic integrity while accommodating pedagogically beneficial AI assistance presents unprecedented challenges. Current AI detection systems fail to control false positive rates (FPR) and suffer from bias against minority student groups, prompting institutional suspensions of these technologies. Watermarking techniques offer statistical rigor through precise $p$-values but remain untested in educational contexts where…

Perspectives in Play: A Multi-Perspective Approach for More Inclusive NLP Systems
Benedetta Muscato, Lucia Passaro, Gizem Gezici, Fosca Giannotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20209 …

Perspectives in Play: A Multi-Perspective Approach for More Inclusive NLP Systems
In the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), common approaches for handling human disagreement consist of aggregating annotators' viewpoints to establish a single ground truth. However, prior studies show that disregarding individual opinions can lead can lead to the side effect of underrepresenting minority perspectives, especially in subjective tasks, where annotators may systematically disagree because of their preferences. Recognizing that labels reflect the diverse backgrounds, life …

Ex-Washington NFL team part-owner Smith dies https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45561511/fred-smith-ex-washington-nfl-team-part-owner-fedex-founder-dies

Sources: the NFL is in talks to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN, which would own NFL Network and RedZone rather than just hold a controlling stake (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/nfl-media-espn-equity-ownership-deal.html

NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN
ESPN would own all of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, rather than just a controlling stake, if the deal moves forward as currently constructed, CNBC has learned.

Raiders GM John Spytek Drops Truth Bomb on Tom Brady Relationship https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-gm-john-spytek-truth-bomb-tom-brady-relationship/?adt_ei=[email]

Tom Brady makes first appearance at Raiders training camp as minority owner https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/01/tom-brady-makes-first-appearance-raiders-202…

Ex-NFLPA boss resigns role at equity firm Carlyle https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45790595/ex-nflpa-boss-howell-quits-role-consultant-carlyle-group

How Raiders' Tom Brady Impacts Evaluation Process https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-tom-brady-geno-smith-john--spytek

Terry Bradshaw Critical of Raiders' Tom Brady and His $375,000,000 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-terry-bradshaw-tom-brady

Why Nobody Will Knock Tom Brady Off His Spot https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-peyton-manning-mark-davis

Raiders’ Tom Brady Set to Get Ultimate Gift from Patriots This Week https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-get-ultimate-gift/?adt_ei=[email]

Raiders' Tom Brady Makes Presence Felt at Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-training-camp-pete-carroll-lonnie-johnson

Tom Brady Breaks Silence on Las Vegas Raiders Ownership Details https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-las-vegas-raiders/?adt_ei=[email]

Raiders' Tom Brady On Patrick Mahomes Duplicating His Career https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-kansas-city-chiefs-patrick-mahomes

NFL Insider Reveals How Tom Brady Impacts the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-birmingham-city-tom-brady-pete-carroll-john-spytek

Raiders' Tom Brady Did Not Want This Quarterback https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-sam-darnold-geno-smith-pete-carroll

Raiders' Tom Brady Has Back-and-Forth With Old Rival https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-wwe-eli-manning-new-york-giants

Tom Brady’s True Feelings on Sam Darnold’s Fit With Raiders Leaked https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-sam-darnold-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

Tom Brady played a part in Raiders avoiding top free-agent quarterback https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-played-part-raiders-avoiding-top-free-agent-q…