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"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Congresswoman Nydia Velšzquez on Saturday held a rally outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New York City to promote her recently introduced "No Masks for ICE Act".
“We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges
— and we shouldn’t accept it from ICE either,”
Velšzquez (D-N.Y.) said in a statement, referring to the New York Police Department.
“When agents hide their faces and identities they creat…

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams
"When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse. Immigrant communities are left wondering if they're being arrested or kidnapped."

Hate in Plain Sight: On the Risks of Moderating AI-Generated Hateful Illusions
Yiting Qu, Ziqing Yang, Yihan Ma, Michael Backes, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22617

Hate in Plain Sight: On the Risks of Moderating AI-Generated Hateful Illusions
Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the creation of a new form of digital art: optical illusions--visual tricks that create different perceptions of reality. However, adversaries may misuse such techniques to generate hateful illusions, which embed specific hate messages into harmless scenes and disseminate them across web communities. In this work, we take the first step toward investigating the risks of scalable hateful illusion generation and the potential for bypa…

"Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study"
#Coral #CoralReef #Oceans

Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study
Most of the world’s coral reefs, and the communities that directly depend on them, are in the tropics, so one might imagine the research on them being led by scientists and institutions based in tropical countries. The reality, however, is far different, a new study shows. Coral reef science is actually dominated by researchers from […]

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
Learn more:

From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Beyond Binary Moderation: Identifying Fine-Grained Sexist and Misogynistic Behavior on GitHub with Large Language Models
Tanni Dev, Sayma Sultana, Amiangshu Bosu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20358

Beyond Binary Moderation: Identifying Fine-Grained Sexist and Misogynistic Behavior on GitHub with Large Language Models
Background: Sexist and misogynistic behavior significantly hinders inclusion in technical communities like GitHub, causing developers, especially minorities, to leave due to subtle biases and microaggressions. Current moderation tools primarily rely on keyword filtering or binary classifiers, limiting their ability to detect nuanced harm effectively. Aims: This study introduces a fine-grained, multi-class classification framework that leverages instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) t…

Experimental investigation of pose informed reinforcement learning for skid-steered visual navigation
Ameya Salvi, Venkat Krovi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21732

Experimental investigation of pose informed reinforcement learning for skid-steered visual navigation
Vision-based lane keeping is a topic of significant interest in the robotics and autonomous ground vehicles communities in various on-road and off-road applications. The skid-steered vehicle architecture has served as a useful vehicle platform for human controlled operations. However, systematic modeling, especially of the skid-slip wheel terrain interactions (primarily in off-road settings) has created bottlenecks for automation deployment. End-to-end learning based methods such as imitation l…

Rainbow Noise: Stress-Testing Multimodal Harmful-Meme Detectors on LGBTQ Content
Ran Tong, Songtao Wei, Jiaqi Liu, Lanruo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19551 https://

Rainbow Noise: Stress-Testing Multimodal Harmful-Meme Detectors on LGBTQ Content
Hateful memes aimed at LGBTQ\,+ communities often evade detection by tweaking either the caption, the image, or both. We build the first robustness benchmark for this setting, pairing four realistic caption attacks with three canonical image corruptions and testing all combinations on the PrideMM dataset. Two state-of-the-art detectors, MemeCLIP and MemeBLIP2, serve as case studies, and we introduce a lightweight \textbf{Text Denoising Adapter (TDA)} to enhance the latter's resilience. Across t…

The city of New Orleans has announced a municipal identification program
to provide ID cards to residents who may not be able to access such cards otherwise
in a move seen as a positive step for the city’s migrant communities
as the Trump administration continues targeting undocumented people.
The municipal government of New Orleans launched the Crescent City ID program on Monday,
which is “designed to promote inclusion” in the city

"We shouldn’t be surprised, because capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet. The founders handled the transition horribly, even by tech industry standards, and the pain and disruption it creates in our lives is real. Yet capital is constantly pulling the rug on online communities... For corporations, it’s always profits over people"

When We Get Komooted
Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

Today, I’ll give a talk at the workshop “Re-Designing the Modern Religious Bookshelf – A Faculty-Library Dialogue on (Re-)Classifying Religious Literature,” organized by @… and Christian Meyer.

Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: some suggestions for refining monetary theory using social simulation
Eduardo Coltre Ferraciolli, Tanya V. Ara\'ujo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22318

Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: some suggestions for refining monetary theory using social simulation
The institution of money can be seen as a foundational social mechanism, enabling communities to quantify collectively regulate economic processes. Money can be said, indeed, to constitute the micro-macro link in economics. This paper reviews influential views on the nature of money in economics and sociology, contrasting them to the relatively limited findings of recent agent-based models of "the emergence of money". Noting ample room for novel combinations of sociological and formal methods t…

Here comes the boom! Studying the effects of rocket launch sonic booms on neighboring communities: #SonicBoom spreads.

Self-organized biodiversity and species abundance distribution patterns in ecosystems with higher-order interactions
Ju Kang, Yiyuan Niu, Yuanzhi Li, Chengjin Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22287

Self-organized biodiversity and species abundance distribution patterns in ecosystems with higher-order interactions
Explaining the emergence of self-organized biodiversity and species abundance distribution patterns remians a fundamental challenge in ecology. While classical frameworks, such as neutral theory and models based on pairwise species interactions, have provided valuable insights, they often neglect higher-order interactions (HOIs), whose role in stabilizing ecological communities is increasingly recognized. Here, we extend the Generalized Lotka-Volterra framework to incorporate HOIs and demonstra…

"What is different, is that before what were largely fringe anti-Semitic and white supremacist theories floating around the far corners of the Alt-Right, have now become the backbone of the Republican party. 'The Great Replacement,' once a conspiracy pushed by only hardline neo-Nazis and white supremacists, is now being touted by everyone from pharma billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, Swason frozen foods heir and Twitter troll Tucker Carlson, to the billionaire backed Turning Point US…

Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/sri-lanka-hit-by-plastic-pollution-after-cargo-ship-sinks-off-indian-coast/

Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast
Sri Lankan authorities, locals and environmentalists say they’re deeply concerned about the possible impacts on the country’s marine ecosystem and coastal communities from the sinking of a container ship off the southern coast of India in May, Mongabay contributor Malaka Rodrigo reported in June. The Liberia-flagged ship MSC Elsa 3 sank on May 25 about […]

States urge court to reject Trump defunding PBS and NPR
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/public-media-is-a-public-good-states-urge-court-to-reject-trumps-attempted-defunding-of-pbs-and-npr-as-an-unlawful-attack-on-rural-and-tribal-communities/

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, Mary Calabro, Orit Shaer, Osnat Mokryn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18706

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into creative communities, like fanfiction, is reshaping how stories are created, shared, and valued. This study investigates the perceptions of 157 active fanfiction members, both readers and writers, regarding AI-generated content in fanfiction. Our research explores the impact of GenAI on community dynamics, examining how AI affects the participatory and collaborative nature of these spaces. The findings reveal responses ranging from cautious acceptan…

We visited my wife's grandmother's village of origin recently, and I got to wondering why there were so few distinct surnames in the local cemetery.
I adapted a Wright-Fisher population genetics model to explain it: https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/names/

NYC: 3pm, in front of City Hall on Broadway https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/freedavidendraids

#FreeDavidEndRaids
On Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocating for immigrant workers. While he has been released from the hospital, he remains in federal custody. Since then, the Trump administration has only escalated its attacks on the Los Angeles community, deploying the military against our own people. This is a clear attack on our communities, work…

Memo to staff: Fortune cut 10% of staff, citing a traffic decline and rise of audio/video, says its new strategy is to cultivate "premium franchise communities" (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1947382422510965145

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In an email to employees, Fortune says it has cut 10% of staff, the result of a decline in traffic, and rise of audio/video. The company says its new strategy is "to cultivate our premium franchise communities and deliver premium editorial content to them."

Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction, sacrifice of communities, over-consumption: by design peoples pushed back. It's systemic, driving inequality and climate collapse.
Those responsible have names.

This weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…

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

Thinking about different communities on the train. This evening I was handing out pompoms to volunteer race marshals, tomorrow I'm at a BRAID community gathering on arts and humanities research and responsible AI

It’s almost as if RTOs and grind-for-welfare are scams. 🤔 https://aus.social/@rakkar/114888408069212569

The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining MITA: Double Machine Learning Approach
Alper Deniz Karakas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18947 https://

The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining MITA: Double Machine Learning Approach
This study examines the long-term economic impact of the colonial Mita system in Peru, building on Melissa Dell's foundational work on the enduring effects of forced labor institutions. The Mita, imposed by the Spanish colonial authorities from 1573 to 1812, required indigenous communities within a designated boundary to supply labor to mines, primarily near Potosi. Dell's original regression discontinuity design (RDD) analysis, leveraging the Mita boundary to estimate the Mita's legacy on mode…

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
The El Sereno Bicentennial Committee was one of the first organizations to announce the cancellation of its 66th Independence Day Parade in a June 20 statement on Facebook.
“We stand wi…

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.

Community Detection in Energy Networks based on Energy Self-Sufficiency and Dynamic Flexibility Activation
Philipp Danner, Hermann de Meer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19412

Community Detection in Energy Networks based on Energy Self-Sufficiency and Dynamic Flexibility Activation
The global energy transition towards distributed, smaller-scale resources, such as decentralized generation and flexible assets like storage and shiftable loads, demands novel control structures aligned with the emerging network architectures. These architectures consist of interconnected, self-contained clusters, commonly called microgrids or energy communities. These clusters aim to optimize collective self-sufficiency by prioritizing local energy use or operating independently during wide-ar…

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
https://ift.tt/xRrUVMj
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate…
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Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

It's not over. Join the fight this Monday, June 16th @ 5PM PT.

✅ No Kings: What's Next in the Fight? (Attendee Debrief Call)
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/798722/?utm_source=indivisible

No Kings: What's Next in the Fight? (Attendee Debrief Call) · No Kings
On June 14, we told our governments and communities: No Kings! Join us on Monday night after the big day for a debrief call for everyone across the movement who attended a No Kings event. We'll talk about what we accomplished and what's next in the fight.

PrompTrend: Continuous Community-Driven Vulnerability Discovery and Assessment for Large Language Models
Tarek Gasmi, Ramzi Guesmi, Mootez Aloui, Jihene Bennaceur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19185

PrompTrend: Continuous Community-Driven Vulnerability Discovery and Assessment for Large Language Models
Static benchmarks fail to capture LLM vulnerabilities emerging through community experimentation in online forums. We present PrompTrend, a system that collects vulnerability data across platforms and evaluates them using multidimensional scoring, with an architecture designed for scalable monitoring. Cross-sectional analysis of 198 vulnerabilities collected from online communities over a five-month period (January-May 2025) and tested on nine commercial models reveals that advanced capabilitie…

Illinois lawmakers vote to limit carbon sequestration near major aquifer, prioritizing protection of drinking water source. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Illinois Lawmakers Vote to Limit Carbon Sequestration Near a Major Aquifer - Inside Climate News
A bill passed by the Illinois legislature could slow the growth of carbon sequestration proposals—and proposals, in particular, for projects located near an aquifer that is the sole source of drinking water in some communities.   If Gov. JB Pritzker signs the law, hundreds of thousands of residents in central Illinois who rely on the Mahomet […]

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Russian drone, missile attacks rock Ukrainian cities far from front line for third straight night: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russian-drone-missile-attacks-rock.html

Labor, Environmental, and Social Justice Groups Call on Micron to Protect Workers and Communities https://www.einpresswire.com/article/825724515/labor-environmental-and-social-justice-groups-call-on-micron-to-protect-workers-and-communities

"I don’t believe anyone was thinking about [the] 51st state idea. Truthfully, the intent was to not get political, but to focus on social, cultural, and economic ties."
I hate this nonsense. With great respect and in kindness: Mr. City Councillor in Bellngham needs to put on his big boy pants and admit that yes it is political and yes it is about the 51st state rhetoric and all the scary border stuff from his federal government.
His choice not to admit that and speak against that, and worse, to act like it doesn’t exist, is a further insult and will not help to get BC/Canadians to resume visits.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #NoFascism #TheAmericanFascist #Economy #Tourism
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/home2/video-bellingham-letter-of-support-sent-to-bc-communities-8034581

Visibility vs. Engagement: How Two Indian News Websites Reported on LGBTQ Individuals and Communities during the Pandemic
Dhruvee Birla, Nazia Akhtar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15041

Visibility vs. Engagement: How Two Indian News Websites Reported on LGBTQ+ Individuals and Communities during the Pandemic
In India, online news media outlets were an important source of information for people with digital access during the COVID-19 pandemic. In India, where "transgender" was legally recognised as a category only in 2014, and same-sex marriages are yet to be legalised, it becomes crucial to analyse whether and how they reported the lived realities of vulnerable LGBTQ+ communities during the pandemic. This study analysed articles from online editions of two English-language newspaper websites, which…

An electric circuital analysis of laboratory plasma sheath fluctuations and propagations
Subham Dutta, Pralay Kumar Karmakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19553

An electric circuital analysis of laboratory plasma sheath fluctuations and propagations
The effective inductive (L), capacitive (C), and resistive (R) behavior of a plasma sheath in a conjoint coupled form is well familiar among plasma physics communities. A dynamic sheath instability in laboratory plasmas is systematically modelled herein as an electrical series-resonance LCR circuit of the above kind. It theoretically yields experimentally observed findings on coexistent plasma sheath oscillation, electric current perturbation, and subsequent plasma sheath waves (PSWs). The plas…

Message your congresscritters, NOW. Tell them to order Trump to call off the military.
(He won't listen, but that sets up a direct confrontation sooner rather than later. Which is good for us.)
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress…

Tell Congress: No Troops on Our Streets
President Trump has deployed thousands of National Guard and federal troops into our communities in response to Angelenos protesting the dangerous and cruel ICE raids across LA. Tell Congress: No troops on our streets.

Spam account applications increasing. Easy to tell on our server coz nobody is really allowed unless we already know them, and the spam accounts never even try to mention an existing user.
Must be hard to tell for those with more open instances though.
I'm a creative thinker who enjoys exploring quirky, fun, and offbeat
communities. Boing.world caught my attention for its unique vibe, and I’d love
to join to connect with others who appreciate humor, creativity, and
unconventional conversation in a welcoming and playful environment.

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Wacuka Ngata, Noman Bashir, Michelle Westerlaken, Laurent Liote, Yasra Chandio, Elsa Olivetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03367

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Datacenters have become the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, powering the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and promising economic growth and technological progress. However, this expansion has brought growing tensions in the local communities where datacenters are already situated or being proposed. While the mainstream discourse often focuses on energy usage and carbon footprint of the computing sector at a global scale, the local socio-environmental consequences -- such as heal…

I’m not your go-to for deep economic theory. I'm just your regular Fediverse baby anarchist, who has a huge crush on Rudolf Rocker's syndicalist takes!
But what I do know is that I don’t need bosses or rulers telling me how to live my life. We’re all capable of working together, making decisions as equals, and building something better without anyone lording over us.
I believe in solidarity and collective action. We deserve workplaces and communities where everyone has a …

Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him ‘Jose’:
‘ He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla blasted the Trump administration Saturday,
-- calling it “petty and unserious”
after Vice President JD Vance referred to him as “Jose” during a news conference in Los Angeles the previous day.
“He knows my name,” Padilla said in an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning.
Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday for less than five hours
after several weeks o…

Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him 'Jose': 'He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla insisted the vice president knows his name, calling the misnaming a reflection of a "petty and unserious" administration. The dustup arrives as federal immigration raids continue to roil Los Angeles and surrounding communities.

Tegna adds 100 hours of new daily programming across 50 markets with dedicated 7am-9am streaming of local newscasts to meet increased demand on CTV platforms (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/tegna-anno…

Tegna Announces Major Local News Expansion
Tegna Inc. today announced that its stations will be “significantly expanding” their local news programming by launching live and on-demand, local newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. daily in 50-plus markets through streaming, connected TV apps and station websites.  Tegna said: “This unprecedented expansion of local news programming is designed to meet audiences’ growing demand for coverage of their communities wherever they want to watch and will deliver over 100 hours of daily breaking news,…

The Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Crisis: Implications on Antidepressant Access for Low-Income Americans
Nicole Hodrosky, Gabriel Cacho, Faiza Ahmed, Rohana Mudireddy, Yapin Wen, Kymora Nembhard, Michael Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14849

The Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Crisis: Implications on Antidepressant Access for Low-Income Americans
Depression affects more than 280 million people worldwide, with poorer communities having disproportionate burden as well as barriers to treatment. This study examines the role of pharmacy pricing caps in access to antidepressants among poorer Americans through bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited articles on antidepressant pricing and access in the Web of Science Core Collection. We used tools like Bibliometrix and VOSviewer to visualize publication trends, dominant contributors, themat…

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter, Shaheen Kanthawala, Haley McAtee, Amy Ritchart, Gahana Kadur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16851

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Recent studies show that users often interpret social media algorithms as mystical or spiritual because of their unpredictability. This invites new questions about how such perceptions affect the content that creators create and the communities they form online. In this study, 14 creators of algorithmic conspirituality content on TikTok were interviewed to explore their interpretations and creation processes influenced by the platform's For You Page algorithm. We illustrate how creators' belief…

Wondering how to make Bluesky work for you to expand your social media reach? Join me today at 1pm AEST to learn what works for me and how to maximise your presence on this platform.
FRIDAY 13 June, 1PM AEST – “Exploring Bluesky”
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🌎 Labor, Environmental, and Social Justice Groups Call on Micron to Protect Workers and Communities – American Indian Law Alliance (https://aila.ngo/labor-environmental-and-social-justice-groups-call-on-micron-to-protect-workers-and-communities/).

Belief Alignment vs Opinion Leadership: Understanding Cross-linguistic Digital Activism in K-pop and BLM Communities
Yuheun Kim, Joshua Introne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16046

Belief Alignment vs Opinion Leadership: Understanding Cross-linguistic Digital Activism in K-pop and BLM Communities
The internet has transformed activism, giving rise to more organic, diverse, and dynamic social movements that transcend geo-political boundaries. Despite extensive research on the role of social media and the internet in cross-cultural activism, the fundamental motivations driving these global movements remain poorly understood. This study examines two plausible explanations for cross-cultural activism: first, that it is driven by influential online opinion leaders, and second, that it results…

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

Soeben eröffnet der newsroom der #nytimes den nachrichten-stream zu den #nokings -protesten. In den AP-News wird schon von einem überwältigenden Zulauf berichtet. Wir befinden uns mitten in der größten Massendemo der #USA

No Kings Protests Across the U.S. Oppose Trump Policies: Live Updates
Demonstrators gathered in roughly 2,000 communities large and small, with few reports of unrest. Many protests on the East Coast have wound down, but demonstrations were just beginning in Los Angeles, the epicenter of anger over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Semi-supervised Community Detection using Glauber Dynamics for an Ising Model
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Diego Goldsztajn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09223 htt…

Semi-supervised Community Detection using Glauber Dynamics for an Ising Model
We consider graphs with two communities and analyze an algorithm for learning the community labels when the edges of the graph and only a small fraction of the labels are known in advance. The algorithm is based on the Glauber dynamics for an Ising model where the energy function includes a quadratic penalty on the magnetization. The analysis focuses on graphs sampled from a Stochastic Block Model (SBM) with slowly growing mean degree. We derive a mean-field limit for the magnetization of each …

Is It Safe To Learn And Share? On Psychological Safety and Social Learning in (Agile) Communities of Practice
Christiaan Verwijs, Evelien Acun-Roos, Daniel Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01065

Is It Safe To Learn And Share? On Psychological Safety and Social Learning in (Agile) Communities of Practice
As hybrid, distributed, and asynchronous work models become more prevalent, continuous learning in Agile Software Development (ASD) gains renewed importance. Communities of Practice (CoPs) are increasingly adopted to support social learning beyond formal education, often relying on virtual communication. Psychological safety, a prerequisite for effective learning, remains insufficiently understood in these settings. This mixed-methods study investigates psychological safety within Agile CoPs th…

On July 17th,
March in Peace.
Act in Power.
https://goodtroubleliveson.org/

Good Trouble Lives On
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all.

"I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics And Neurodivergence
Naba Rizvi, Taggert Smith, Tanvi Vidyala, Mya Bolds, Harper Strickland, Andrew Begel, Rua Williams, Imani Munyaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12098

"I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics And Neurodivergence
Human-like AI agents such as robots and chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, but they present a variety of ethical concerns. The first concern is in how we define humanness, and how our definition impacts communities historically dehumanized by scientific research. Autistic people in particular have been dehumanized by being compared to robots, making it even more important to ensure this marginalization is not reproduced by AI that may promote neuronormative social behaviors. Second, th…

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online
Sachin R. Pendse, Ben Rochford, Neha Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20377

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online
The impact of culture on how people express distress in online support communities is increasingly a topic of interest within Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In the United States, distinct cultures have emerged from each of the two dominant political parties, forming a primary lens by which people navigate online and offline worlds. We examine whether partisan culture may play a role in how U.S. Republican and Democrat users of online mental heal…

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society https://www.socialifeoflaw.com/post/photographic-exhibition-on-authoritarianism-law-and-the-remaking-of-society

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

Proposal from the NA61/SHINE Collaboration for update of European Strategy for Particle Physics
SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison, N. Amin, E. V. Andronov, I. -C. Arsene, M. Bajda, Y. Balkova, D. Battaglia, A. Bazgir, S. Bhosale, M. Bielewicz, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, Y. Bondar, W. Brylinski, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, A. F. Camino, Y. D. Chandak, M. Csanad, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, C. Dalmazzone, N. Davis, A. Dmitriev, P. von Doetinchem, W. Dominik, J. Dum…

Proposal from the NA61/SHINE Collaboration for update of European Strategy for Particle Physics
Building on the current program's success and driven by new physics challenges, the NA61/SHINE Collaboration proposes to continue measuring hadron production properties in reactions induced by hadron and ion beams after CERN Long Shutdown 3. These measurements are of significant interest to the heavy-ion, cosmic-ray, and neutrino physics communities and will focus on: - Investigating hadron production in the light-ion systems to explore the diagram of high-energy nuclear collisions, and to obta…

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Let's Reason Formally: Natural-Formal Hybrid Reasoning Enhances LLM's Math Capability
Enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities of LLMs has garnered significant attention in both the mathematical and computer science communities. Recent works have made substantial progress in both Natural Language (NL) reasoning and Formal Language (FL) reasoning by leveraging the potential of pure Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods on base models. However, RL approaches struggle to impart new capabilities not presented in the base model, highlighting the need to integrate more knowledg…

Digging deeper: deep joint species distribution modeling reveals environmental drivers of Earthworm Communities
Sara Si-moussi, Wilfried Thuiller, Esther Galbrun, Thibaud Deca\"ens, Sylvain G\'erard, Daniel F. March\'an, Claire Marsden, Yvan Capowiez, Micka\"el Hedde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13568

Digging deeper: deep joint species distribution modeling reveals environmental drivers of Earthworm Communities
Earthworms are key drivers of soil function, influencing organic matter turnover, nutrient cycling, and soil structure. Understanding the environmental controls on their distribution is essential for predicting the impacts of land use and climate change on soil ecosystems. While local studies have identified abiotic drivers of earthworm communities, broad-scale spatial patterns remain underexplored. We developed a multi-species, multi-task deep learning model to jointly predict the distributi…

DELPHYNE: A Pre-Trained Model for General and Financial Time Series
Xueying Ding, Aakriti Mittal, Achintya Gopal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06288 https://

DELPHYNE: A Pre-Trained Model for General and Financial Time Series
Time-series data is a vital modality within data science communities. This is particularly valuable in financial applications, where it helps in detecting patterns, understanding market behavior, and making informed decisions based on historical data. Recent advances in language modeling have led to the rise of time-series pre-trained models that are trained on vast collections of datasets and applied to diverse tasks across financial domains. However, across financial applications, existing ti…

Fascism has no place on Earth, now or ever!
We thrive when people come together as equals, organizing our communities through cooperation and mutual support.
Take action and reclaim your power at: https://iwa-ait.org

Cross-Subreddit Behavior as Open-Source Indicators of Coordinated Influence: A Case Study of r/Sino & r/China
Manon Pilaud, Ian McCulloh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16857 htt…

Cross-Subreddit Behavior as Open-Source Indicators of Coordinated Influence: A Case Study of r/Sino & r/China
This study investigates potential indicators of coordinated influence activity among users participating in both r/Sino and r/China, two ideologically divergent Reddit communities focused on Chinese political discourse. Topic modeling and sentiment analysis are applied to all posts and comments authored by dual-subreddit users to construct a user-topic sentiment matrix. Individual sentiment patterns are compared to global topic baselines derived from the broader r/Sino and r/China populations. …

"FEMA had not been told and, in fact, they learned the news from those news stories. They didn't get official word from the White House about that disaster declaration for more than four days, which meant the money that was supposed to go out the door to those hard-hit communities was delayed."
'Quite a statement': CNN host stunned by Trump 'trauma' inflicted on key agency - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-trump-administration-concerns-mount/

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions https://www.animanaturalis.org/n/46882?utm_source=Mastodon
Madrid raises its voice against bullfighting and for a cruelty-free culture

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions
We reveal the hidden cost of public funding for bullfighting broadcasts on Spain’s regional television channels, which has increased in recent years, especially in those Autonomous Communities governed by the Partido Popular and VOX.

'A Little Bubble of Friends': An Analysis of LGBTQ Pandemic Experiences Using Reddit Data
Dhruvee Birla, Nazia Akhtar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15033

'A Little Bubble of Friends': An Analysis of LGBTQ+ Pandemic Experiences Using Reddit Data
Social media was one of the most popular forms of communication among young people with digital access during the pandemic. Consequently, crucial debates and discussions about the pandemic crisis have also developed on social media platforms, making them a great primary source to study the experiences of specific groups and communities during the pandemic. This study involved research using LDA topic modeling and sentiment analysis on data obtained from the social media platform Reddit to under…

Rethinking Ecological Measures Of Functional Diversity
Ines Meraoumia, Adji Bousso Dieng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17839 https://arx…

Rethinking Ecological Measures Of Functional Diversity
Understanding functional diversity, the range and variability of species' roles and actions within their communities, is key to predicting and preserving the functions that sustain both nature and human well-being. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on functional diversity measurement. We begin by consolidating essential criteria that effective measures of functional diversity should meet. We then evaluate fifteen widely used functional diversity metrics against …

Public perspectives on the design of fusion energy facilities
Nathan Kawamoto, Daniel Hoover, Jonathan Xie, Jacob Walters, Katie Snyder, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02207

Public perspectives on the design of fusion energy facilities
As fusion energy technologies approach demonstration and commercial deployment, understanding public perspectives on future fusion facilities will be critical for achieving social license, especially because fusion energy facilities, unlike large fission reactors, may be sited in closer proximity to people and communities, due to distinct regulatory frameworks. In a departure from the 'decide-announce-defend' approach typically used to site energy infrastructure, we develop a participatory desi…

Evolving HPC services to enable ML workloads on HPE Cray EX
Stefano Schuppli, Fawzi Mohamed, Henrique Mendon\c{c}a, Nina Mujkanovic, Elia Palme, Dino Conciatore, Lukas Drescher, Miguel Gila, Pim Witlox, Joost VandeVondele, Maxime Martinasso, Thomas C. Schulthess, Torsten Hoefler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01880

Evolving HPC services to enable ML workloads on HPE Cray EX
The Alps Research Infrastructure leverages GH200 technology at scale, featuring 10,752 GPUs. Accessing Alps provides a significant computational advantage for researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). While Alps serves a broad range of scientific communities, traditional HPC services alone are not sufficient to meet the dynamic needs of the ML community. This paper presents an initial investigation into extending HPC service capabilities to better support ML workloa…

Four wealthy nations
—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia
—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade,
according to new data published by Oil Change Internationalon Monday, the first day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
Oil Change's analysis,
titled Planet Wreckers,
notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction,
32 billion tons of carb…

'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
"This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis."

Unveiling Political Influence Through Social Media: Network and Causal Dynamics in the 2022 French Presidential Election
Ixandra Achitouv, David Chavalarias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16449

Unveiling Political Influence Through Social Media: Network and Causal Dynamics in the 2022 French Presidential Election
During the 2022 French presidential election, we collected daily Twitter messages on key topics posted by political candidates and their close networks. Using a data-driven approach, we analyze interactions among political parties, identifying central topics that shape the landscape of political debate. Moving beyond traditional correlation analyses, we apply a causal inference technique: Convergent Cross Mapping, to uncover directional influences among political communities, revealing how some…

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Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

Every day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…

As unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
https://www.washington…

The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A.
Masked immigration officials are storming towns and arresting people.

Bottom-Up Perspectives on AI Governance: Insights from User Reviews of AI Products
Stefan Pasch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00080 https://

Bottom-Up Perspectives on AI Governance: Insights from User Reviews of AI Products
With the growing importance of AI governance, numerous high-level frameworks and principles have been articulated by policymakers, institutions, and expert communities to guide the development and application of AI. While such frameworks offer valuable normative orientation, they may not fully capture the practical concerns of those who interact with AI systems in organizational and operational contexts. To address this gap, this study adopts a bottom-up approach to explore how governance-relev…

Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: the Role of Social Networks and Homophily
Matthew O. Jackson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13016 https://

Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: the Role of Social Networks and Homophily
I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social networks clarifies how the entanglement of people's information, opportunities, and behaviors with those of their friends and family leads to persistent differences across communities, resulting in inequality in education, employment, income, health, and wealth. The key role of homophily in separating groups within t…

Language bubbles in online social networks
Alessandro Bellina, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Fabio Saracco, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto, Gabriele Di Bona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13068

Language bubbles in online social networks
Social media platforms have become essential spaces for public discourse. While political polarisation and limited communication across different groups are widely acknowledged, the connection between social network fragmentation and the language features and quality used by various communities has received insufficient attention. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the social structure and linguistic richness of the Italian debate on Twitter/X. We analyse tweets and retweets from Ita…

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Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

Towards Designing Social Interventions for Online Climate Change Denialism Discussions
Ruican zhong, Shruti Phadke, Beth Goldberg, Tanushree Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06561

Towards Designing Social Interventions for Online Climate Change Denialism Discussions
As conspiracy theories gain traction, it has become crucial to research effective intervention strategies that can foster evidence and science-based discussions in conspiracy theory communities online. This study presents a novel framework using insider language to contest conspiracy theory ideology in climate change denialism on Reddit. Focusing on discussions in two Reddit communities, our research investigates reactions to pro-social and evidence-based intervention messages for two cohorts o…

Exploring Empathy in Software Engineering: Insights from a Grey Literature Analysis of Practitioners' Perspectives
Lidiany Cerqueira, Jo\~ao Pedro Bastos, Danilo Neves, Glauco Carneiro, Rodrigo Sp\'inola, S\'avio Freire, Jos\'e Amancio Macedo Santos, Manoel Mendon\c{c}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05325

Exploring Empathy in Software Engineering: Insights from a Grey Literature Analysis of Practitioners' Perspectives
Context. Empathy, a key social skill, is essential for communication and collaboration in SE but remains an under-researched topic. Aims. This study investigates empathy in SE from practitioners' perspectives, aiming to characterize its meaning, identify barriers, discuss practices to overcome them, and explore its effects. Method. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on 55 web articles from DEV and Medium, two communities widely used by practitioners. To strengthen our findings, we con…

Addressing overlapping communities in multiple-source detection: An edge clustering approach for complex networks
Haomin Li, Daniel K. Sewell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08265

Addressing overlapping communities in multiple-source detection: An edge clustering approach for complex networks
The source detection problem in network analysis involves identifying the origins of diffusion processes, such as disease outbreaks or misinformation propagation. Traditional methods often focus on single sources, whereas real-world scenarios frequently involve multiple sources, complicating detection efforts. This study addresses the multiple-source detection (MSD) problem by integrating edge clustering algorithms into the community-based label propagation framework, effectively handling mixed…

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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Indivisible
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities. That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national…

Unraveling Human Capital Complexity: Economic Complexity Analysis of Occupations and Skills
Soohyoung Lee, Dawoon Jeong, Jeong-Dong Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12960

Unraveling Human Capital Complexity: Economic Complexity Analysis of Occupations and Skills
This study investigates the structural embeddedness of skills in the division of labor. Drawing on O*NET data covering 120 skills across 872 U.S. occupations, we identify three skill communities: general, cognitive, and physical skills. Compressing the connectivity in the occupation-skill network through the Method of Reflection, we derive the Occupational Complexity Index (OCI) and the Skill Complexity Index (SCI). They unpack the structure of the occupation skill network that general skills a…

All Proof of Work But No Proof of Play
Hayder Tirmazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23435

All Proof of Work But No Proof of Play
Speedrunning is a competition that emerged from communities of early video games such as Doom (1993). Speedrunners try to finish a game in minimal time. Provably verifying the authenticity of submitted speedruns is an open problem. Traditionally, best-effort speedrun verification is conducted by on-site human observers, forensic audio analysis, or a rigorous mathematical analysis of the game mechanics. Such methods are tedious, fallible, and, perhaps worst of all, not cryptographic. Motivated b…

Machine Learning for Evolutionary Graph Theory
Guoli Yang, Matteo Cavaliere, Mingtao Zhang, Giovanni Masala, Adam Miles, Mengzhu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08363

Machine Learning for Evolutionary Graph Theory
The stability of communities - whether biological, social, economic, technological or ecological depends on the balance between cooperation and cheating. While cooperation strengthens communities, selfish individuals, or "cheaters," exploit collective benefits without contributing. If cheaters become too prevalent, they can trigger the collapse of cooperation and of the community, often in an abrupt manner. A key challenge is determining whether the risk of such a collapse can be detected in ad…

Ryan Flynn’s documentary “You’re No Indian”, about
"tribal disenrollment",
the controversial practice of removing Indigenous people from tribal roles, will debut at the "Dances With Films Festival" on June 28.
In the film, Flynn explores how tribal disenrollment has stripped over 11,000 Native American people of their tribal membership,
thereby erasing their identities, rights and connections to their communities.
Fueled by casino profits, p…

'You’re No Indian' Doc Exposes Tribal Disenrollment
You’re No Indian' Doc that Exposes the Human Rights Crisis Behind Tribal Disenrollment to Debut at Dances With Films

`Socheton': A Culturally Appropriate AI Tool to Support Reproductive Well-being
Sharifa Sultana, Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury, Zinnat Sultana, Nervo Verdezoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12357

`Socheton': A Culturally Appropriate AI Tool to Support Reproductive Well-being
Reproductive well-being education in the Global South is often challenged as many communities perceive many of its contents as misinformation, misconceptions, and language-inappropriate. Our ten-month-long ethnographic study (n=41) investigated the impact of sociocultural landscape, cultural beliefs, and healthcare infrastructure on Bangladeshi people's access to quality reproductive healthcare and set four design goals: combating misinformation, including culturally appropriate language, profe…

Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse
Mark J. Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01642 https://arx…

Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse
This paper examines how emotional responses to football matches influence online discourse across digital spaces on Reddit. By analysing millions of posts from dozens of subreddits, it demonstrates that real-world events trigger sentiment shifts that move across communities. It shows that negative sentiment correlates with problematic language; match outcomes directly influence sentiment and posting habits; sentiment can transfer to unrelated communities; and offers insights into the content of…

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A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents
Due to its general-purpose nature, Generative AI is applied in an ever-growing set of domains and tasks, leading to an expanding set of risks of harm impacting people, communities, society, and the environment. These risks may arise due to failures during the design and development of the technology, as well as during its release, deployment, or downstream usages and appropriations of its outputs. In this paper, building on prior taxonomies of AI risks, harms, and failures, we construct a taxon…

The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil expansion project that environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers warned could have a destructive impact on local communities and the climate.
As reported recently by the Oil and Gas Journal,
👉 the plan “involves expanding the Wildcat Loadout Facility, a key transfer point for moving Uinta basin crude oil to rail lines that transport it to refineries along the Gulf Coast.”
🔥The goal of the plan is to transfer an …

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With congressional approval and Trump's subsequent signature July 4, the 2025 tax reconciliation bill offers expanded opportunities for the oil and gas industry.

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Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse
This paper examines how emotional responses to football matches influence online discourse across digital spaces on Reddit. By analysing millions of posts from dozens of subreddits, it demonstrates that real-world events trigger sentiment shifts that move across communities. It shows that negative sentiment correlates with problematic language; match outcomes directly influence sentiment and posting habits; sentiment can transfer to unrelated communities; and offers insights into the content of…

Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media
Owen Xingjian Zhang, Sohyeon Hwang, Yuhan Liu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05522

Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media
Community-level blocklists are key to content moderation practices in decentralized social media. These blocklists enable moderators to prevent other communities, such as those acting in bad faith, from interacting with their own -- and, if shared publicly, warn others about communities worth blocking. Prior work has examined blocklists in centralized social media, noting their potential for collective moderation outcomes, but has focused on blocklists as individual-level tools. To understand h…

Infrastructuring Contestability: A Framework for Community-Defined AI Value Pluralism
Andreas Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05187 https://

Infrastructuring Contestability: A Framework for Community-Defined AI Value Pluralism
The proliferation of AI-driven systems presents a fundamental challenge to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), often diminishing user agency and failing to account for value pluralism. Current approaches to value alignment, which rely on centralized, top-down definitions, lack the mechanisms for meaningful contestability. This leaves users and communities unable to challenge or shape the values embedded in the systems that govern their digital lives,…

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Pre-trained Prompt-driven Community Search
The "pre-train, prompt" paradigm is widely adopted in various graph-based tasks and has shown promising performance in community detection. Most existing semi-supervised community detection algorithms detect communities based on known ones, and the detected communities typically do not contain the given query node. Therefore, they are not suitable for searching the community of a given node. Motivated by this, we adopt this paradigm into the semi-supervised community search for the first time a…

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Can Invisible Psychological Traits Organize Visible Network Structure? A Complex Network Analysis of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Based Interaction Patterns in Anonymous Social Networks
Exploration of the impact of personality traits on social interactions within anonymous online communities poses a challenge at the interface of networked social sciences and psychology. We analyze whether Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types impact the dynamics of interactions on an anonymous chat system with over 288,000 messages from 6,076 users. Using a data set including 940 users voluntarily providing MBTI typing and gender, we create a weighted undirected network and appl…