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In October of 2017, I extended a business trip to Vancouver and had my wife fly out to meet me for some touristy stuff. Vancouver is an awesome holiday destination, and there's no shortage of activities in and around the city. We spent a couple of days exploring Stanley Park, walked the interior trails, played at the Pitch and Putt golf course (opened in 1927), and circled the park on rented bikes. I highly recommend it as a place to visit.
#Vancouver #Vacations

Machine learning approaches to seismic event classification in the Ostrava region
Marek Pecha, Michael Skotnica, Jana Ru\v{s}ajov\'a, Bohdan Rieznikov, V\'it Wandrol, Mark\'eta R\"osnerov\'a, Jarom\'ir Knejzl\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22574

Machine learning approaches to seismic event classification in the Ostrava region
The northeastern region of the Czech Republic is among the most seismically active areas in the country. The most frequent seismic events are mining-induced since there used to be strong mining activity in the past. However, natural tectonic events may also occur. In addition, seismic stations often record explosions in quarries in the region. Despite the cessation of mining activities, mine-induced seismic events still occur. Therefore, a rapid differentiation between tectonic and anthropogeni…

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Elgin joins communities looking to ban use of their property for ICE activities
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251024/news/elgin-joins-communities-looking-to-ban-use-of-their-property-for-ice-activities/

Leveraging Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Learning of Morphological Structures in Preschool Children with Language Vulnerabilities
Stina Sundstedt, Mattias Wingren, Susanne H\"agglund, Daniel Ventus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22287

Leveraging Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Learning of Morphological Structures in Preschool Children with Language Vulnerabilities
Preschool children with language vulnerabilities -- such as developmental language disorders or immigration related language challenges -- often require support to strengthen their expressive language skills. Based on the principle of implicit learning, speech-language therapists (SLTs) typically embed target morphological structures (e.g., third person -s) into everyday interactions or game-based learning activities. Educators are recommended by SLTs to do the same. This approach demands preci…

Smart Routing for EV Charge Point Operators in Mega Cities: Case Study of Istanbul
Onur Yenigun, Gozde Karatas Baydogmus, Kazim Yildiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21369 https://

Smart Routing for EV Charge Point Operators in Mega Cities: Case Study of Istanbul
The rapidly increasing use of electric vehicles (EVs) has made it even more important to manage the charging infrastructure sustainably. The expansion of charging station networks, especially in large cities, creates serious logistical challenges for charging point operators (CPOs) in planning maintenance and repair activities. Inefficient field personnel management can lead to time loss, high operational costs, and resource waste. This study presents an integrated method to optimize the planni…

These are the photos for my 2026 calendar. Got the proofs today. Should have the hard copies in 2 weeks. Always agonizing to pick 13 of my photos for the next one. The last few years I’ve had to use older ones too. I don’t get out to shoot as much anymore. I’m hoping that will improve. I’ve volunteered to be a photographer for the city park dept. I’ll take pics of people engaged in the parks and activities, and whatever else I see.

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

The ocean conservation world has lost a giant. Kristina Gjerde, known as the "mother of the high seas," spent two decades building the coalitions that led to the historic 2023 UN High Seas Treaty—protecting biodiversity in international waters for the first time.
Her work became urgent as industrial activities threatened deep-sea ecosystems. She was 68.

Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died
Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to fish meant freedom to take; “out of sight” became “out of mind.” The deep ocean and the high seas were treated as a backdrop to coastal concerns, even as they stored carbon and heat, […]

This is the level of prep my wife brings to Christmas lunch. Can you tell she's a scientist? As you can see, it's going well. I've been assigned a few tasks, but she mostly wants to do this herself, it seems.
#Christmas

I should use contact lenses during my winter activities.. Foggy Glases are just so annoying!

«It is not just the jobs that have disappeared. The towns also bear the scars of mining and related activities. Heavy truck traffic has damaged roads, while drilling operations have pierced the salt flats, leaving visible marks on landscapes that once drew tourists.»
A lithium bust leaves Latin American towns in the dust
https://restofworld.org/2025/lithium-price-crash-latin-america-mining/

China’s coastal cities are sinking as seas rise at record speed #China

China’s coastal cities are sinking as seas rise at record speed
Sea levels are rising faster than at any time in 4,000 years, scientists report, with China’s major coastal cities at particular risk. The rapid increase is driven by warming oceans and melting ice, while human activities like groundwater pumping make it worse. In some areas, the land itself is sinking faster than the ocean is rising. Still, researchers see progress as cities like Shanghai adopt new technologies to stabilize the ground and prepare for the future.

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

#TravellerRPG strives again to join such pathetic retreads as d20 #Tribe8 and d20 #CallOfCthulhu. 🤦🏻‍♂️
#ttrpg

FPF Year in Review 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-year-in-review-2025/
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This year, FPF continued to broaden its footprint across priority areas of d…

How about let’s not?
#apple #liquidAss

From bets to busts: A timeline of gambling controversies in sports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6744773/2025/10/24/gambling-betting-scandals-sports-history/

Recreational activities are an important part of #StarTrek. But let's see if you also know your games for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I wil…

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities (in mice) #BCI

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities - Nature Materials
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based active arrays made by growing wafer-scale trilayer MoS2 directly on a polyimidine substrate achieve high-fidelity spatiotemporal neuronal monitoring in vitro and in living mice.

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
Thursday marks a first deadline,
set this month in a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
for all federal law enforcement agencies to “coordinate delivery”
to the FBI of their intelligence files
on “Antifa” and “Antifa-related” activities.
Bondi has tasked the FBI with using those files to draw up lists of Americans and foreigners to investigate
as part of a campaign directed by …

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.

Protests are now called "Expressive Activities", apparently.

A guy I know said he was way more productive when using AI.
My question:
"Are you able to get your work done in fewer hours and spend that time not working, maybe spending it with your family, or doing hobbies or other pleasurable activities? Or do you just do more work?"
Their Answer:
"I work the same hours but now productivity is up so it is not a benefit to myself or society. However, I think the opposite. The quality of work I produce in that time is…

"Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years"
#Norway #Environment #Oceans

Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years
Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licenses to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the "nail in the coffin" of the plans.

PromoGuardian: Detecting Promotion Abuse Fraud with Multi-Relation Fused Graph Neural Networks
Shaofei Li, Xiao Han, Ziqi Zhang, Minyao Hua, Shuli Gao, Zhenkai Liang, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen, Ding Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12652

PromoGuardian: Detecting Promotion Abuse Fraud with Multi-Relation Fused Graph Neural Networks
As e-commerce platforms develop, fraudulent activities are increasingly emerging, posing significant threats to the security and stability of these platforms. Promotion abuse is one of the fastest-growing types of fraud in recent years and is characterized by users exploiting promotional activities to gain financial benefits from the platform. To investigate this issue, we conduct the first study on promotion abuse fraud in e-commerce platforms MEITUAN. We find that promotion abuse fraud is a g…

#coffeeneuring ride 3, combined with #DrumAndBassOnTheBike
I visited a coffee place I used to have lunch at. It seems to have changed owners, but the coffee is still good.
The croissant, not so much.

Open-Access Scientific Game-Theory Paper Shows Religion Worth a Damn
Fear of supernatural PUNISHMENT can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05734-7?ref=404media.co
…

Fear of supernatural punishment can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Human activities largely impact the natural environment negatively and radical changes in human societies would be required to achieve their sustainable relationship with nature. Although frequently overlooked, previous studies have suggested that supernatural beliefs can protect nature from human overexploitation via beliefs that supernatural entities punish people who harm nature. Studies of folklore and ethnology have shown that such supernatural beliefs are widely found. However, it remains…

Pot lights are a mistake, an architectural foible that’s ubiquitous because it makes a place look glamorous when you’re walking through thinking of renting/buying it. Looks good in photos too. And they’re fine for cooking or reading because you’re looking down. But for activities like conversation or chilling in front of the screen, they glare annoyingly. Nice glass wall or ceiling light fixtures are way easier on the eyes.

JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest $10B in industries critical for national security, including "frontier" tech like AI and quantum computing (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/jpmorgan-chase-to-invest-10-…

JPMorgan Chase says it will invest $10 billion into industries critical for national security
The move helps JPMorgan Chase organize its activities around national interests at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.

I absolutely did not anticipate how jam packed an itinerary we'd have coming out to philly but it's been sick so far
but yesterday and today have been just wall to wall ACTIVITIES and im surprised my body hasn't fallen apart yet
my physical and social batteries are gonna need to be put on charge for like a straight week at least after this trip tho

DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’ | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/dhs-sends-a-journalist-back-to-his-home-country-to-be-tortured-because-live-streaming-ice-activities-is-threatening/

Embracing physical and financial well-being in our later years isn't just a goal—it's a fulfilling journey! I'm devoted to helping seniors truly thrive. It's NEVER too late to start. What activities keep you vibrant and engaged? Let's share and inspire each other! 😊 #SeniorWellness #AgeWell #StayActive

🤑 Nearly Half of Young Japanese Workers Spend Big on Fandom Activities
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/young-japanese-workers-spend-big-on-idol-fandom/

Nearly 50% of Young Japanese Workers Are Investing in Idol Fandom Activities
A recent survey suggests that Japanese 20-somethings are increasingly turning to fandom culture for motivation at work.

My dog, Stanley is pretty smart.
He has "speech" buttons that he can press to "say" words (it plays an audio recording of a word like “outside" or "water”).
He'll press the "food" button before we'll feed him dinner, and he presses "outside" most mornings as apart of his routine.
But he has absolutely no idea what these buttons are actually *saying*. He just knows that he gets food when he presses that one. He's …

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

"The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. https://sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079

“So I would advise and caution against purchasing an AI toy for Christmas and think about other options of things that parents and kids can enjoy together that really build that social connection with the family, not the social connection with a parasocial AI toy.”
Many of these toys are happy to engage in discussions inappropriate for children, such as dangerous activities or sexual practices. Some are programmed to cause addiction.

Leveraging Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment -- A Case from Forestry Cyber-Physical Systems
Fikret Mert G\"ultekin, Oscar Lilja, Ranim Khojah, Rebekka Wohlrab, Marvin Damschen, Mazen Mohamad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06343

Leveraging Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment -- A Case from Forestry Cyber-Physical Systems
In safety-critical software systems, cybersecurity activities become essential, with risk assessment being one of the most critical. In many software teams, cybersecurity experts are either entirely absent or represented by only a small number of specialists. As a result, the workload for these experts becomes high, and software engineers would need to conduct cybersecurity activities themselves. This creates a need for a tool to support cybersecurity experts and engineers in evaluating vulnera…

Beyond Accessibility: How Intelligent Assistive Technologies Improve Activities of Daily Life for Visually Impaired People in South Africa
Ronaldo Nombakuse, Nils Messerschmidt, Pitso Tsibolane, Muhammad Irfan Khalid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05998

Beyond Accessibility: How Intelligent Assistive Technologies Improve Activities of Daily Life for Visually Impaired People in South Africa
Our study explores how intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) can enable visually impaired people (VIPs) to overcome barriers to inclusion in a digital society to ultimately improve their quality of life. Drawing on the Social Model of Disability (SMD), which frames disability as a consequence of social and institutional barriers rather than individual impairments, we employ semi-structured interviews and an online qualitative survey with n=61 VIPs in South Africa. Using descriptive statisti…

Paving the Way Towards Kinematic Assessment Using Monocular Video: A Preclinical Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning-Based 3D Human Pose Estimators Against Inertial Sensors in Daily Living Activities
Mario Medrano-Paredes, Carmen Fern\'andez-Gonz\'alez, Francisco-Javier D\'iaz-Pernas, Hichem Saoudi, Javier Gonz\'alez-Alonso, Mario Mart\'inez-Zarzuela

Paving the Way Towards Kinematic Assessment Using Monocular Video: A Preclinical Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning-Based 3D Human Pose Estimators Against Inertial Sensors in Daily Living Activities
Advances in machine learning and wearable sensors offer new opportunities for capturing and analyzing human movement outside specialized laboratories. Accurate assessment of human movement under real-world conditions is essential for telemedicine, sports science, and rehabilitation. This preclinical benchmark compares monocular video-based 3D human pose estimation models with inertial measurement units (IMUs), leveraging the VIDIMU dataset containing a total of 13 clinically relevant daily acti…

Metropolitana V 🍎
城 V 🍎
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

South Africa investigating recruitment of citizens into 'mercenary activities' in Russia-Ukraine war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/south-africa-investigating-recruitment-of.html

looks like there'll be a #NoKings event at Sunset Dunes! cool crossover
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/847587/
main march in SF here:

NO KINGS Ocean Beach, San Francisco · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Join us for No Kings Day Ocean Beach! Saturday, October 18 • 12:00 PM • Sunset Dunes (Upper Great Highway & Judah), SF Be part of a fun, family-friendly Resistance Festival on the westside of San Francisco. Together we’ll celebrate community and resistance with: 🎨 Art and creative expression 🎶 Live music and performances 📚 Information tables on Bay Resistance, Prop 50, voter registration and more 🤝 Family-friendly ac…

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Microsoft commissions AT study, which I feel shoehorns ‘AI’ into results.
Non-PDF/UA-compliant report:
https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/do…

Beating Harmful Stereotypes Through Facts: RAG-based Counter-speech Generation
Greta Damo, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12316 https://

Beating Harmful Stereotypes Through Facts: RAG-based Counter-speech Generation
Counter-speech generation is at the core of many expert activities, such as fact-checking and hate speech, to counter harmful content. Yet, existing work treats counter-speech generation as pure text generation task, mainly based on Large Language Models or NGO experts. These approaches show severe drawbacks due to the limited reliability and coherence in the generated countering text, and in scalability, respectively. To close this gap, we introduce a novel framework to model counter-speech ge…

The thing about a life-logger, is you input sensitive data about your life, lifestyle and activities, so privacy and data-integrity are some of the most important issues.
There can be no server, the data has to be yours and yours alone. Because you can’t tell what is happening to the data in a closed-source app, it must be completely free and open source.
You can’t trust a corporate diary, they must sell to anyone offering enough money.
So it is with my life log app, all data completely in your own device. No home server ever sees anything.
There is no home server. Just the code.
To achieve this Exocortex Log is a Progressive Web App. It downloads when you are online at the website and can be installed onto the homepage of your phone.
It keeps all data on the local device using indexdb.
This means you must be responsible for your own backups. Be sure to export and back up your data regularly. I have gaps in my ten year record where my phone was stolen and most recent backup was months prior.
Once installed it will work offline, airplane mode, no internet, down in the tube station at midnight, anywhere.
There's a blog on the website saying this and more: https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-06-release/

Just set up a new "stop when we ask you the first time" challenge with the kid.
Classic thing we often ask him to stop doing is screaming (he screams a pretty normal amount for his age, but we're working on more productive forms of needs communication).
As we're reminding him of the challenge rules (stop when asked = 1 point), kid gets a twinkle in his eye and then screams briefly and looks at us.
Instant new rule: you don't get points for stopping activities that you started just to get points.

TikTok tracked user’s Grindr activity in violation of European law, rights group alleges https://therecord.media/tiktok-grindr-data-tracking-noyb

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

A sore runner is a sad runner.

TIL the tiny organisms on Mystery Science Theater 3000 #MST3K that live all throughout the Satellite of Love - the Nanites - have amongst their tasks and activities … running … a …
MICRO-brewery #DadJoke

Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…

Punctuation matters, yo.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR032CTDDv1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Chrissi Dennis and Monkey Buddies Activities on Instagram: "They just need a refresher in punctuation. Find Punctuation Rap Battle on Amazon for another genre of music to clear up the confusion! Or, see the comments below. #monkeybuddies #chrissidennis #punctuation #godrestyemerrygentlemen"
Understanding the punctuation of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is crucial to correctly singing this classic Christmas carol. The video explores the placement of commas and the history behind this festive song. By learning the correct punctuation, you can enhance your singing and holiday experience. Learn the right comma placement, the story behind the song, and the tips to improve your caroling. Improve your punctuation skills and make the holiday season even more enjoyable.

Well.... this might put a damper on my leaf raking activities today....
#WinterIsComing #Snowmageddon

PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation
Yuki Kuroda, Tomoya Takahashi, Cristian C Beltran-Hernandez, Masashi Hamaya, Kazutoshi Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09209

PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation
Electric prosthetic hands should be lightweight to decrease the burden on the user, shaped like human hands for cosmetic purposes, and have motors inside to protect them from damage and dirt. In addition to the ability to perform daily activities, these features are essential for everyday use of the hand. In-hand manipulation is necessary to perform daily activities such as transitioning between different postures, particularly through rotational movements, such as reorienting cards before slot…

Form a crowd
Stay loud
https://bsky.app/profile/lizafella.bsky.social/post/3m2zbqxbt3c2j

Interesting: Alejandro Gil led the disastrous unification of the dual currency system, exposing those without access to hard currency to unaffordable prices.
Cuba charges former economy minister Gil of espionage, financial crimes | Corruption News | Al Jazeera
http…

Cuba charges former economy minister Gil of espionage, financial crimes
Authorities have not said which country or state actors may have benefitted from the alleged spying activities.

How many activities are you regularly engaged in? (sport, movies, reading, 3D print, woodworking...)

The Influence of Magnetic Complexity of Active Regions on Solar Wind Properties During Solar Cycles 23 and 24
Xinzheng Shi, Hui Fu, Zhenghua Huang, Limei Yan, Qi Liu, Lidong Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08975

The Influence of Magnetic Complexity of Active Regions on Solar Wind Properties During Solar Cycles 23 and 24
Linking solar wind properties to the activities and characteristics of its source regions can enhance our understanding of its origin and generation mechanisms. Using the Mount Wilson magnetic classification (MWMC), we categorize all active regions (ARs) between 1999 and 2020 into three groups: alpha, beta, and complex ARs. Subsequently, we classify the near-Earth AR solar wind into the corresponding three types based on the magnetic type of ARs. Our results show that alpha, beta, and complex A…

On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation
Yuan Liao, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Jorge Gil, Silvia De Sojo Caso, Laura Alessandretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10307

On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation
Understanding how accessibility shapes participation in leisure activities is central to promoting inclusive and vibrant urban life. Conventional accessibility measures often focus on potential access from fixed home locations, overlooking the constraints and opportunities embedded in daily routines. In this study, we introduce a space-time accessibility (SPA) metric rooted in the capability approach, capturing feasible leisure opportunities between home and work given a certain time budget, in…

This ad on Treasure Island for TI is all white people, completely ignoring the history and long-term residents. Peak gentrification.

Evaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Negin Esmaeili, Paul T. Grogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10859 https://

Evaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
This work presents an objective, repeatable, automatic, and fast methodology for assessing the representativeness of geophysical variables sampled by Earth-observing satellites. The primary goal is to identify and mitigate potential sampling biases attributed to orbit selection during pre-Phase A mission studies. This methodology supports current incubation activities for a future Planetary Boundary Layer observing system by incorporating a sampling effectiveness measure into a broader architec…

Extreme events scaling in self-organized critical models
Abdul Quadir, Haider Hasan Jafri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08733 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08733…

Extreme events scaling in self-organized critical models
We study extreme events of avalanche activities in finite-size two-dimensional self-organized critical (SOC) models, specifically the stochastic Manna model (SMM) and the Bak-Tang-Weisenfeld (BTW) sandpile model. Employing the approach of block maxima, the study numerically reveals that the distributions for extreme avalanche size and area follow the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution. The extreme avalanche size follows the Gumbel distribution with shape parameter $ξ=0$ while in the …

Increasing accessibility by public transport benefits local economy: the effect of a new metro line in Rome
Francesco Marzolla, Bruno Campanelli, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Matteo Bruno, Vittorio Loreto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01449

Increasing accessibility by public transport benefits local economy: the effect of a new metro line in Rome
This study investigates the economic impact of Metro C, a major expansion of Rome's metro system. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach within a multiplicative framework, the research quantifies the impact of increased accessibility on local economic activities. The results show a statistically significant rise in the number of economic activities in areas affected by the new line. A mild decline in economic diversity suggests the emergence of spatial clustering of similar activities…

Prototyping Multimodal GenAI Real-Time Agents with Counterfactual Replays and Hybrid Wizard-of-Oz
Frederic Gmeiner, Kenneth Holstein, Nikolas Martelaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06872

Prototyping Multimodal GenAI Real-Time Agents with Counterfactual Replays and Hybrid Wizard-of-Oz
Recent advancements in multimodal generative AI (GenAI) enable the creation of personal context-aware real-time agents that, for example, can augment user workflows by following their on-screen activities and providing contextual assistance. However, prototyping such experiences is challenging, especially when supporting people with domain-specific tasks using real-time inputs such as speech and screen recordings. While prototyping an LLM-based proactive support agent system, we found that exis…

The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence" is a declaration of war on the so-called “radical left, and accuses any critic of law enforcement, or gov't activities of basically fomenting “violent revolution.”
The Trump administration’s designation today of antifa as a terrorist group allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of #antifa

Trump’s War on America
Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.

Esbarrei aqui agora com este canal contendo všrios cursos do MIT, de všrias šreas diferentes. Todos em inglês. Mas acho que podem interessar a alguns:
https://www.youtube.com/@mitocw

Security Analysis of Ponzi Schemes in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Chunyi Zhang, Qinghong Wei, Xiaoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03819 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Security Analysis of Ponzi Schemes in Ethereum Smart Contracts
The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has precipitated the widespread adoption of Ethereum and smart contracts across a variety of sectors. However, this has also given rise to numerous fraudulent activities, with many speculators embedding Ponzi schemes within smart contracts, resulting in significant financial losses for investors. Currently, there is a lack of effective methods for identifying and analyzing such new types of fraudulent activities. This paper categorizes these scams …

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which scraped billions of web pages since 2013, including paywalled articles, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

Hey CoSocialists, we had our AGM yesterday and while there’ll be a blog post coming, now is the time for members to cast a vote on priorities and activities.
https://cosocial.ca/@coop/115469528965103864
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Towards Shift-Up: A Framework and a Prestudy on High-Value Activities in GenAI Native Software Development
Vlad Stirbu, Mateen Ahmed Abbasi, Teerath Das, Jesse Haimi, Niko Iljin, Pyry Kotilainen, Petrus Lipsanen, Niko M\"akitalo, Maiju Sipil\"a, Venla Veijalainen, Tommi Mikkonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24485

Towards Shift-Up: A Framework and a Prestudy on High-Value Activities in GenAI Native Software Development
Generative AI (GenAI) has significantly influenced software engineering. Associated tools have created a shift in software engineering, where specialized agents, based on user-provided prompts, are replacing human developers. In this paper, we propose a framework for GenAI native development that we call \textit{shift-up}, which helps software teams focus on high-value work while being supported by GenAI. Furthermore, we also present a preliminary study testing these ideas with current GenAI to…

RIGEL: Feedback regulated cloud-scale star formation efficiency in a simulated dwarf galaxy merger
Yunwei Deng, Hui Li, Federico Marinacci, Yang Ni, Boyuan Liu, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, Greg L. Bryan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07368

RIGEL: Feedback regulated cloud-scale star formation efficiency in a simulated dwarf galaxy merger
Major mergers of galaxies are likely to trigger bursty star formation activities. The accumulation of dense gas and the boost of star formation efficiency (SFE) are considered to be the two main drivers of the starbursts. However, it is still unclear how each process operates on the scale of individual star-forming clouds. Here, we present a high-resolution (2 Msun) RHD simulation of a gas-rich dwarf galaxy merger using the RIGEL model to investigate how mergers affect the properties of the str…

A Simple but Effective Elaborative Query Reformulation Approach for Natural Language Recommendation
Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Liu, Justin Cui, Joshua Zhang, Anton Korikov, George-Kirollos Saad, Scott Sanner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02656

A Simple but Effective Elaborative Query Reformulation Approach for Natural Language Recommendation
Natural Language (NL) recommender systems aim to retrieve relevant items from free-form user queries and item descriptions. Existing systems often rely on dense retrieval (DR), which struggles to interpret challenging queries that express broad (e.g., "cities for youth friendly activities") or indirect (e.g., "cities for a high school graduation trip") user intents. While query reformulation (QR) has been widely adopted to improve such systems, existing QR methods tend to focus only on expandin…

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras https://www.404media.co/aclu-and-eff-sue-a-city-blanketed-with-flock-surveillance-cameras/

Knowing Unknowns in an Age of Information Overload
Saurabh Khanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10413

Knowing Unknowns in an Age of Information Overload
The technological revolution of the Internet has digitized the social, economic, political, and cultural activities of billions of humans. While researchers have been paying due attention to concerns of misinformation and bias, these obscure a much less researched and equally insidious problem - that of uncritically consuming incomplete information. The problem of incomplete information consumption stems from the very nature of explicitly ranked information on digital platforms, where our limit…

The orange toddler cares a lot more about terrorizing Americans than he does about celebrating Christmas.
"Florida's Catholic bishops appealed to President Donald Trump on Monday to pause immigration enforcement activities during the Christmas holidays. The White House, in response, said it would be business as usual."
#Trump #Politics #USPolitics #Christmas

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

#RIP Jane Goodall.
https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2

Jane Goodall, pioneering conservationist and primatologist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced her death Wednesday, saying she died of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking tour. Goodall is best remembered for living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago and documenting the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to humans. She also note…

Russian ELVIS V brain implant for restoring vision https://elvis-tech.ru/elvisv_en "After implantation, patients undergo a rehabilitation course, which may last 6 months and include activities to teach the new 'vision' from simple to complex."

ELVIS V - electronic vision of the future
Electronic vision of the future - neuroimplant ELVIS V

Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/s

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much #SouthAfrica…

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially livestock and rice paddies), and decomposing waste in garbage dumps.

Colts' Richardson still not cleared for IR return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47192479/colts-anthony-richardson-sr-ir-not-cleared-return

Prismo: A Decision Support System for Privacy-Preserving ML Framework Selection
Nges Brian Njungle, Eric Jahns, Luigi Mastromauro, Edwin P. Kayang, Milan Stojkov, Michel A. Kinsy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09985

Prismo: A Decision Support System for Privacy-Preserving ML Framework Selection
Machine learning has become a crucial part of our lives, with applications spanning nearly every aspect of our daily activities. However, using personal information in machine learning applications has sparked significant security and privacy concerns about user data. To address these challenges, different privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) frameworks have been developed to protect sensitive information in machine learning applications. These frameworks generally attempt to balance desi…

Scaling Properties of Avalanche Activity in the Two-Dimensional Abelian Sandpile Model
Anubhav Ganguly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09631 https://arxiv.org/p…

Scaling Properties of Avalanche Activity in the Two-Dimensional Abelian Sandpile Model
We study the scaling properties of avalanche activity in the two-dimensional Abelian sandpile model. Instead of the conventional avalanche size distribution, we analyze the site activity distribution, which measures how often a site participates in avalanches when grains are added across the lattice. Using numerical simulations for system sizes up to \(L = 160\), averaged over \(10^4\) configurations, we determine the probability distribution \(P(A, L)\) of site activities. The results show tha…

#AppealsCourt #overrules federal judge who wanted rogue #BorderPatrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino to appear daily in local courtroom to justify activities..
Previously Bovino has sicced his forces on civilians and been rampa…

VR as a "Drop-In" Well-being Tool for Knowledge Workers
Sophia Ppali, Haris Psallidopoulos, Marios Constantinides, Fotis Liarokapis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02836 ht…

VR as a "Drop-In" Well-being Tool for Knowledge Workers
Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly being used to support workplace well-being, but many interventions focus narrowly on a single activity or goal. Our work explores how VR can meet the diverse physical and mental needs of knowledge workers. We developed Tranquil Loom, a VR app offering stretching, guided meditation, and open exploration across four environments. The app includes an AI assistant that suggests activities based on users' emotional states. We conducted a two-phase mixed-methods s…

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Free agent CB Samuel (spine) given OK to play https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46837307/free-agent-cb-asante-samuel-jr-spine-cleared-play

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Good Morning #Canada
Like a Count Floyd movie night on #SCTV, the ghosts in this series are thinning out as we get to our 2nd to last province. Apparently, New Brunswick is not particularly scary unless you make an enemy of the J.D. Irving clan. (They won't find your body.) Wikipedia has no list of abandoned towns, which is definite proof they don't exist. A century old cotton mill in Fredericton, certainly ripe for ghoulish activities, is currently haunted by government employees. Ooooo....
So we'll have to rely on two of New Brunswick's most famous ghostly locations to spooky your interest, starting with the headless nun.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Halloween #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/headless-nun-miramichi-1.7011713

ExPrESSO: Zero-Knowledge backed Extensive Privacy Preserving Single Sign-on
Kaustabh Barman, Fabian Piper, Sanjeet Raj Pandey, Axel Kuepper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08355 http…

ExPrESSO: Zero-Knowledge backed Extensive Privacy Preserving Single Sign-on
User authentication is one of the most important aspects for secure communication between services and end-users over the Internet. Service providers leverage Single-Sign On (SSO) to make it easier for their users to authenticate themselves. However, standardized systems for SSO, such as OIDC, do not guarantee user privacy as identity providers can track user activities. We propose a zero-knowledge-based mechanism that integrates with OIDC to let users authenticate through SSO without revealing…

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Investigating Encoding and Perspective for Augmented Reality
Jade Kandel, Sriya Kasumarthi, Spiros Tsalikis, Chelsea Duppen, Daniel Szafir, Michael Lewek, Henry Fuchs, Danielle Szafir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00407

Investigating Encoding and Perspective for Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) offers promising opportunities to support movement-based activities, such as personal training or physical therapy, with real-time, spatially-situated visual cues. While many approaches leverage AR to guide motion, existing design guidelines focus on simple, upper-body movements within the user's field of view. We lack evidence-based design recommendations for guiding more diverse scenarios involving movements with varying levels of visibility and direction. We conducted …

Exposing LLM User Privacy via Traffic Fingerprint Analysis: A Study of Privacy Risks in LLM Agent Interactions
Yixiang Zhang, Xinhao Deng, Zhongyi Gu, Yihao Chen, Ke Xu, Qi Li, Jianping Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07176

Exposing LLM User Privacy via Traffic Fingerprint Analysis: A Study of Privacy Risks in LLM Agent Interactions
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that orchestrate tasks and integrate external tools to execute complex workflows. We demonstrate that these interactive behaviors leave distinctive fingerprints in encrypted traffic exchanged between users and LLM agents. By analyzing traffic patterns associated with agent workflows and tool invocations, adversaries can infer agent activities, distinguish specific agents, and even profile sensitive user attributes. To highlight th…

Cyber Warfare During Operation Sindoor: Malware Campaign Analysis and Detection Framework
Prakhar Paliwal, Atul Kabra, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04118 htt…

Cyber Warfare During Operation Sindoor: Malware Campaign Analysis and Detection Framework
Rapid digitization of critical infrastructure has made cyberwarfare one of the important dimensions of modern conflicts. Attacking the critical infrastructure is an attractive pre-emptive proposition for adversaries as it can be done remotely without crossing borders. Such attacks disturb the support systems of the opponents to launch any offensive activities, crippling their fighting capabilities. Cyberattacks during cyberwarfare can not only be used to steal information, but also to spread di…

Characterizing Event-themed Malicious Web Campaigns: A Case Study on War-themed Websites
Maraz Mia, Mir Mehedi A. Pritom, Tariqul Islam, Shouhuai Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25410

Characterizing Event-themed Malicious Web Campaigns: A Case Study on War-themed Websites
Cybercrimes such as online scams and fraud have become prevalent. Cybercriminals often abuse various global or regional events as themes of their fraudulent activities to breach user trust and attain a higher attack success rate. These attacks attempt to manipulate and deceive innocent people into interacting with meticulously crafted websites with malicious payloads, phishing, or fraudulent transactions. To deepen our understanding of the problem, this paper investigates how to characterize ev…

Explainable and Resilient ML-Based Physical-Layer Attack Detectors
Aleksandra Knapi\'nska, Marija Furdek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26530 https://arxiv…

Explainable and Resilient ML-Based Physical-Layer Attack Detectors
Detection of emerging attacks on network infrastructure is a critical aspect of security management. To meet the growing scale and complexity of modern threats, machine learning (ML) techniques offer valuable tools for automating the detection of malicious activities. However, as these techniques become more complex, their internal operations grow increasingly opaque. In this context, we address the need for explainable physical-layer attack detection methods. First, we analyze the inner workin…