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Henry Ruggs eligible for parole in 2026 and Jerry Jones shouldn't be waiting https://insidethestar.com/henry-ruggs-eligible-for-parole-in-2026-and-jerry-jones-shouldnt-be-waiting

In the spring, I gave the participants of the fine arts pedagogy course at INN a glimpse into what I’ll be researching this fall. While the connections have developed since then, I still like the map and refer to it regularly.
A brief overview – fredsnotes https://filmschoolteacher.info…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: Jenna, you take my place. Brief Cally.
[Computer room, Gan tries to pull piping from wall]
AVON: Gan, no! You'll break the computer links, we'll never get them started. [Avon tries to stop Gan, who thows him off]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/295

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Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

@… This seems like the kind of thing you'd like
https://bsky.app/profile/ukrainewarpod.bsky.social/post/3ltnhr654ks26

Our English-language MA program in #ReligiousStudies attracts students from all over the world. Sometimes it can be a challenge to handle the diversity of undergrad training and disciplinary knowledge that our students bring with them. But this semester’s “ethics and politics of religious heritage” class was a delight. After a brief introduction, I let my students bring their topics, texts,…

Asymptotic quasinormal modes, echoes, and black hole spectral instability: a brief review
Shui-Fa Shen, Guan-Ru Li, Ramin G. Daghigh, Jodin C. Morey, Michael D. Green, Wei-Liang Qian, Rui-Hong Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11663

Asymptotic quasinormal modes, echoes, and black hole spectral instability: a brief review
We present a short review of the analytical aspects of recent progress in the study of black hole spectral instability and its potential observational consequences. This topic, inspired by earlier foundational works, has attracted considerable attention in the recent literature. It has been demonstrated that both the low-lying modes and high overtones of black hole quasinormal spectra can be substantially influenced by ultraviolet metric perturbations. The temporal evolution of gravitational wa…

Albion EU is down?
- Still down, in maintenance...could not log in moments ago...
I got another character called MastodonFediAsia which I play on AlbionAsia. Unfortunately I already created a guild with 100 tax in it...that was a mistake...but I can fix this mistake by changing tax to 0% and then adding that only during special events for brief moments tax may be higher than 0%
#AlbionOnline

"OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly - Carbon Brief
Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of climate change far more severe.

A propos of nothing in particular:

"Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Herbert Lehman (D-NY) lamented that the act subjected deportees to the tyranny of bureaucrats and that deportations “without review, would be the beginning of a police state.”"
Reactions to the US Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
Source:

Dear Computer History people: I'm searching for books covering the history of the MIT Media Lab.The only one I found so far is "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, released in 1988. So a bit dated. Are you aware of other titles, which also cover the time AFTER 1988? It might be titles on other subjects but with a significant amount on the MIT Media Lab.
Edit: There is some material on their website as well:

History – MIT Media Lab
A brief history of the Media LabWhen the MIT Media Lab first opened its doors in 1985, it combined a vision of a digital future with a new style of creative in…

> As the Court weighs how to restore competition in the search market, Mozilla is asking it to seriously consider the unintended consequences of some of the proposed remedies, which, if adopted, could harm browser competition, weaken user choice and undermine the open web.
This should be called a Mozilla syndrome!

The future of the web depends on getting this right | The Mozilla Blog
The remedies phase of the U.S. v. Google LLC search case wrapped up last week. As the Court weighs how to restore competition in the search market, Mozilla

hi yall! weird and arty movies used to be a massive part of my psyche for a brief, intense time when i was younger. but then i had a particularly bad depressive slump that killed the habit. now i wanna get back into it. each day for the next week, im gonna watch one Andrei Tarkovsky film (i found a free collection on archive.org!) and post my initial reaction afterward. i saw one of his movies, Stalker, when i was about 15, and while i liked it, i know i was too young and stupid to actually …

Interleaving Logic and Counting
Johan van Benthem, Thomas Icard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05219

Interleaving Logic and Counting
Reasoning with quantifier expressions in natural language combines logical and arithmetical features, transcending strict divides between qualitative and quantitative. Our topic is this cooperation of styles as it occurs in common linguistic usage and its extension into the broader practice of natural language plus "grassroots mathematics". We begin with a brief review of first-order logic with counting operators and cardinality comparisons. This system is known to be of high complexity, and …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19318 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Calibration of Large Language Models on Code Summarization
A brief, fluent, and relevant summary can be helpful during program comprehension; however, such a summary does require significant human effort to produce. Often, good summaries are unavailable in software projects, which makes maintenance more difficult. There has been a considerable body of research into automated AI-based methods, using Large Language models (LLMs), to generate summaries of code; there also has been quite a bit of work on ways to measure the performance of such summarizatio…

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

P.808 Multilingual Speech Enhancement Testing: Approach and Results of URGENT 2025 Challenge
Marvin Sach, Yihui Fu, Kohei Saijo, Wangyou Zhang, Samuele Cornell, Robin Scheibler, Chenda Li, Anurag Kumar, Wei Wang, Yanmin Qian, Shinji Watanabe, Tim Fingscheidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11306

P.808 Multilingual Speech Enhancement Testing: Approach and Results of URGENT 2025 Challenge
In speech quality estimation for speech enhancement (SE) systems, subjective listening tests so far are considered as the gold standard. This should be even more true considering the large influx of new generative or hybrid methods into the field, revealing issues of some objective metrics. Efforts such as the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge also involving non-English datasets add the aspect of multilinguality to the testing procedure. In this paper, we provide a brief reca…

Particle Swarm Optimization for Quantum Circuit Synthesis: Performance Analysis and Insights
Mirza Hizriyan Nubli Hidayat, Tan Chye Cheah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02898

Particle Swarm Optimization for Quantum Circuit Synthesis: Performance Analysis and Insights
This paper discusses how particle swarm optimization (PSO) can be used to generate quantum circuits to solve an instance of the MaxOne problem. It then analyzes previous studies on evolutionary algorithms for circuit synthesis. With a brief introduction to PSO, including its parameters and algorithm flow, the paper focuses on a method of quantum circuit encoding and representation as PSO parameters. The fitness evaluation used in this paper is the MaxOne problem. The paper presents experimental…

Cubic spline functions revisited
Florian Jarre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05083

Cubic spline functions revisited
In this paper a fourth order asymptotically optimal error bound for a new cubic interpolating spline function, denoted by Q-spline, is derived for the case that only function values at given points are used but not any derivative information. The bound seems to be stronger than earlier error bounds for cubic spline interpolation in such setting such as the not-a-knot spline. A brief analysis of the conditioning of the end conditions of cubic spline interpolation leads to a modification of the n…

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vere\v{s}, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23736

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only a few hours before their impact with Earth, providing a brief opportunity to characterize them before impact. We describe the characterization of PIDA 2024 RW$_1$, which was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 2024 September 4 at 05:43 UTC, before it entered the atmosphere near the northern Philippines at 16:39 UTC. We observed 2024 RW$_1$ with the Astrophysical Research Consortium Telescope Imaging Camera on the Apache Point Astr…

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/