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George Pickens backing out of football camp in Pittsburgh is 'overblown narrative' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/george-pickens-backing-out-football-camp-pittsburgh-overblown-narrative

AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent individuals navigate social encounters with real-time guidance, though some experts warn of overreliance (Hani Richter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/its-most

Narrative Shift Detection: A Hybrid Approach of Dynamic Topic Models and Large Language Models
Kai-Robin Lange, Tobias Schmidt, Matthias Reccius, Henrik M\"uller, Michael Roos, Carsten Jentsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20269

Narrative Shift Detection: A Hybrid Approach of Dynamic Topic Models and Large Language Models
With rapidly evolving media narratives, it has become increasingly critical to not just extract narratives from a given corpus but rather investigate, how they develop over time. While popular narrative extraction methods such as Large Language Models do well in capturing typical narrative elements or even the complex structure of a narrative, applying them to an entire corpus comes with obstacles, such as a high financial or computational cost. We propose a combination of the language understa…

Northvolt-Pleite: Rechnungshof soll Förderung unter die Lupe nehmen
Hat die Landesregierung den Landtag umfassend genug über die Northvolt-Förderung informiert? Diese Frage ist nun ein Fall für den Landesrechnungshof.

World-aware Planning Narratives Enhance Large Vision-Language Model Planner
Junhao Shi, Zhaoye Fei, Siyin Wang, Qipeng Guo, Jingjing Gong, Xipeng QIu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21230

World-aware Planning Narratives Enhance Large Vision-Language Model Planner
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show promise for embodied planning tasks but struggle with complex scenarios involving unfamiliar environments and multi-step goals. Current approaches rely on environment-agnostic imitation learning that disconnects instructions from environmental contexts, causing models to struggle with context-sensitive instructions and rely on supplementary cues rather than visual reasoning during long-horizon interactions. In this work, we propose World-Aware Planning …

Apparently, many of the new volunteers are quite young, which seems to go against prevailing narrative of an atomised lonely genZ/Alpha that doesn't feel part of society. OTOH, Hjemmeværnet emphasises that many are joining because of the "fælleskab" (an extremely important concept in Denmark which translates as fellowship, but is used much more commonly than the English word, it's something like "being part of the gang")

It’s marketing that targets executives and investors who are eyeballs-deep in the cost-cutting cult, for whom all these labor market doom narratives are just pure crack.
“Hardly anyone is paying attention?!?” Bullshit. The executive class can’t shut up about this. They send all-company emails about it, with drool visibly running down their chins.
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Predicting Readiness to Engage in Psychotherapy of People with Chronic Pain Based on their Pain-Related Narratives Saar
Saar Draznin Shiran, Boris Boltyansky, Alexandra Zhuravleva, Dmitry Scherbakov, Pavel Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20805

Predicting Readiness to Engage in Psychotherapy of People with Chronic Pain Based on their Pain-Related Narratives Saar
Background. Chronic pain afflicts 20 % of the global population. A strictly biomedical mind-set leaves many sufferers chasing somatic cures and has fuelled the opioid crisis. The biopsychosocial model recognises pain subjective, multifactorial nature, yet uptake of psychosocial care remains low. We hypothesised that patients own pain narratives would predict their readiness to engage in psychotherapy. Methods. In a cross-sectional pilot, 24 chronic-pain patients recorded narrated pain stories…

Structuralist Approach to AI Literary Criticism: Leveraging Greimas Semiotic Square for Large Language Models
Fangzhou Dong, Yifan Zeng, Yingpeng Sang, Hong Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21360

Structuralist Approach to AI Literary Criticism: Leveraging Greimas Semiotic Square for Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in understanding and generating text but struggle with providing professional literary criticism for works with profound thoughts and complex narratives. This paper proposes GLASS (Greimas Literary Analysis via Semiotic Square), a structured analytical framework based on Greimas Semiotic Square (GSS), to enhance LLMs' ability to conduct in-depth literary analysis. GLASS facilitates the rapid dissection of narrative structures and deep meanings in narrative wor…

It’s marketing that targets executives and investors who are eyeballs-deep in the cost-cutting cult, for whom all these labor market doom narratives are just pure crack.
“Hardly anyone is paying attention?!?” Bullshit. The executive class can’t shut up about this. They send all-company emails about it, with drool visibly running down their chins.
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