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ABQ mayoral candidate campaigns on fake education, experience and made-up prior elected office - City Desk ABQ https://citydesk.org/2025/08/14/albuquerque-mayoral-candidate-makes-false-claims-echoing-george-santos-scandal/ …

Echoing George Santos, ABQ mayoral candidate campaigns on fake education, experience and made-up prior elected office - City Desk ABQ
(c) City Desk ABQ. Republication is available by request to kevin@newmexico.news According to his campaign website, Albuquerque mayoral candidate Patrick B. Sais graduated from UNM with a degree in political science, was elected to the Albuquerque City Council and earned endorsements from a local business owner, firefighter and educator in his campaign for Albuquerque mayor.  […]

4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand duty to disobey illegal orders:
"'…moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,'…National Guard member…deployed to quell public unrest over immigration arrests in Los Angeles told The New York Times. 'This is not what…military of our country was designed to do, at all.'"
"…when some troops disobey – even indirectly – others can more easily find…courage to do the same."

«The truth is, I believe, far simpler, more sinister and depressingly familiar. Milei never really broke with Argentina’s sad oligarchic practices of the past. He merely rebranded a type of heist practised by a long succession of his predecessors»
Javier Milei is no libertarian - UnHerd
https://unherd.com/2025/10/javier-milei-is-no-libertarian/

Do Natural Language Descriptions of Model Activations Convey Privileged Information?
Millicent Li, Alberto Mario Ceballos Arroyo, Giordano Rogers, Naomi Saphra, Byron C. Wallace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13316

Do Natural Language Descriptions of Model Activations Convey Privileged Information?
Recent interpretability methods have proposed to translate LLM internal representations into natural language descriptions using a second verbalizer LLM. This is intended to illuminate how the target model represents and operates on inputs. But do such activation verbalization approaches actually provide privileged knowledge about the internal workings of the target model, or do they merely convey information about its inputs? We critically evaluate popular verbalization methods across datasets…

#Mural na Wasserwerku w #Görlitz.
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Characterizing the Time Variability of 2M1207 A b with JWST NIRSpec/PRISM
Arthur D. Adams, Yifan Zhou, Gabriel Dominique-Marleau, Daniel Apai, Beth A. Biller, Aarynn L. Carter, Johanna M. Vos, Niall Whiteford, Stephan Birkmann, Theodora Karalidi, Xianyu Tan, Jason Wang, Yuhiko Aoyama, Brendan P. Bowler, Micka\"el Bonnefoy, Jun Hashimoto
https://

Characterizing the Time Variability of 2M1207 A+b with JWST NIRSpec/PRISM
We present JWST NIRSpec/PRISM IFU time-resolved observations of 2M1207 A and b (TWA 27), a $\sim 10$ Myr binary system consisting of a $\sim 2500$ K sub-stellar primary hosting a $\sim 1300$ K companion. Our data provide 20 time-resolved spectra over an observation spanning 12.56 hours. We provide an empirical characterization for the spectra of both objects across time. For 2M1207 A, non-linear trend models are statistically favored within the ranges 0.6-2.3 $μ$m and 3.8-5.3 $μ$m. However, m…

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

Euclid preparation. Using mock Low Surface Brightness dwarf galaxies to probe Wide Survey detection capabilities
Collaboration, Urbano, Duc, Poulain, Nucita, Venhola, Marchal, K\"ummel, Kong, Soldano, Romelli, Walmsley, Saifollahi, Voggel, Lan\c{c}on, Marleau, Sola, Hunt, Junais, Carollo, Sanchez-Alarcon, Baes, Buitrago, Cantiello, Cuillandre, S\'anchez, Ferr\'e-Mateu, Franco, Gracia-Carpio, Habas, Hilker, Iodice, Knapen, Le, Mart\'inez-Delgado, M\"uller, De Paoli…

Euclid preparation. Using mock Low Surface Brightness dwarf galaxies to probe Wide Survey detection capabilities
Local Universe dwarf galaxies are both cosmological and mass assembly probes. Deep surveys have enabled the study of these objects down to the low surface brightness (LSB) regime. In this paper, we estimate Euclid's dwarf detection capabilities as well as limits of its MERge processing function (MER pipeline), responsible for producing the stacked mosaics and final catalogues. To do this, we inject mock dwarf galaxies in a real Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) field in the VIS band and compare the inpu…

Speciesism in AI: Evaluating Discrimination Against Animals in Large Language Models
Monika Jotautait\.e, Lucius Caviola, David A. Brewster, Thilo Hagendorff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11534

Speciesism in AI: Evaluating Discrimination Against Animals in Large Language Models
As large language models (LLMs) become more widely deployed, it is crucial to examine their ethical tendencies. Building on research on fairness and discrimination in AI, we investigate whether LLMs exhibit speciesist bias -- discrimination based on species membership -- and how they value non-human animals. We systematically examine this issue across three paradigms: (1) SpeciesismBench, a 1,003-item benchmark assessing recognition and moral evaluation of speciesist statements; (2) established…