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I agree entirely with Rich.
BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

U.S. and China Agree to Get Geneva Pact Back on Track (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-and-china-agree-to-get-geneva-pact-back-on-track-695eb5f5?st=w5GiCS&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p160#a250610p160

I try to be polite and constructive on GitHub but today I couldn't resist some snark. I think Microsoft deserves it.
https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-bus-emulator-installer/issues/17#issuecomment-2790842139

Charge Ordering in out-of-plane Boron Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide
Saikat Sarkar, Rajarshi Roy, Bikram Kumar Das, Suman Chatterjee, Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09567

Charge Ordering in out-of-plane Boron Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide
Symmetry-breaking phase transitions analogous to superconductivity (SC), charge ordering (CO) etc. in metal-intercalated graphene are favorable resulting from modified electronic and phonon band structures. Strong carrier-lattice interaction evolved from the out-of-plane soft vibrations with accumulation of charges at the out-of-plane region, can set a favorable environment for CO in graphene system. Here, we employ boron-doped reduced graphene oxide (BG) to acquire charge-ordered state above a…

Jazzaria – Fire and Forget
#byncnd

What. The. Actual. Fuck. https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/114656946056668221

Alissa Azar (@alissaazar@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 2 images So yeah. Things started off as they usually do. Couldn’t check in online or at a kiosk. Got to the front desk to check in where I waited over 2 hours for them to get approval from TSA to let me through. Before leaving they asked if I was checking a bag. I said yes, one. They proceeded to charge me for the bag and sent me off with my boarding pass equipped with the SSSS stamp. Before I left they called me back and said TSA told them I had to take my checked bag with me to…

FairASR: Fair Audio Contrastive Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition
Jongsuk Kim, Jaemyung Yu, Minchan Kwon, Junmo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10747

FairASR: Fair Audio Contrastive Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition
Large-scale ASR models have achieved remarkable gains in accuracy and robustness. However, fairness issues remain largely unaddressed despite their critical importance in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce FairASR, a system that mitigates demographic bias by learning representations that are uninformative about group membership, enabling fair generalization across demographic groups. Leveraging a multi-demographic dataset, our approach employs a gradient reversal layer to suppr…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07849 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Karine Jean-Pierre walks away from Democratic Party to 'follow my own compass' (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3430892/karine-jean-pierre-walks-away-from-democratic-party-follow-own-compass-independent-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p65#a250605p65