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Ukrainian robots are becoming a new force on the front lines! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/ukrainian-robots-are-becoming-a.html

Micah Parsons is becoming wildly expensive, and Jerry Jones and the Cowboys only have themselves to blame

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-p

'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' https://www.…

Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities. However, this relationship is becoming increasingly strained due to financial burdens, decreased contributions, and misalignment between AI models and community norms. As we move deeper into the GenAI era, it is essential to examine the interdependent relationship between GenAI, the long-term sustainabilit…

A thousand years ago, I began to abandon the idea of becoming a lawyer because (without having a clue what I was doing) I installed the now defunct Mandrake Linux with KDE on my PC.
But the feeling of success (and feeling like a real hacker) came when I opened the Amarok player and was able to play 'Comfort Eagle' by CAKE. It worked on right away! Now I feel nostalgic every time I hear it.
Looking back, I think that was a key moment.

Joe Milton III becoming latest Cowboys trade debacle before the preseason's even over https://fansided.com/nfl/joe-milton-becoming-latest-cowboys-trade-debacle-before-preseason-even-over

In Africa, heat waves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, researchers say #Africa

In Africa, heat waves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, researchers say
Heat waves—prolonged periods of abnormally hot weather—influence egg prices, energy bills and even public transit. And they're becoming more common as temperatures increase.

BLIPs: Bayesian Learned Interatomic Potentials
Dario Coscia, Pim de Haan, Max Welling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14022

BLIPs: Bayesian Learned Interatomic Potentials
Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a central tool in simulation-based chemistry. However, like most deep learning models, MLIPs struggle to make accurate predictions on out-of-distribution data or when trained in a data-scarce regime, both common scenarios in simulation-based chemistry. Moreover, MLIPs do not provide uncertainty estimates by construction, which are fundamental to guide active learning pipelines and to ensure the accuracy of simulation results compared …

With the rapid evolution of #AI, there are more and more articles and posts claiming that people are becoming less intelligent as they rely on AI.
But if you think about it, back in the day, the so-called "nerds" were the go-to gurus for any kind of tech knowledge.
Then Google came along, and suddenly, it wasn’t about knowing everything anymore; it was about knowing how to …

Progress in the US becoming the 23rd Republic of Russia seems significantly higher than that of Canada becoming the 51st state of the US.

Exit Stories: Using Reddit Self-Disclosures to Understand Disengagement from Problematic Communities
Shruti Phadke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13837 https://

Exit Stories: Using Reddit Self-Disclosures to Understand Disengagement from Problematic Communities
Online platforms like Reddit are increasingly becoming popular for individuals sharing personal experiences of leaving behind social, ideological, and political groups. Specifically, a series of "ex-" subreddits on Reddit allow users to recount their departures from commitments such as religious affiliations, manosphere communities, conspiracy theories or political beliefs, and lifestyle choices. Understanding the natural process through which users exit, especially from problematic groups such…

Contrastive Multi-View Graph Hashing
Yang Xu, Zuliang Yang, Kai Ming Ting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12377 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12377

Contrastive Multi-View Graph Hashing
Multi-view graph data, which both captures node attributes and rich relational information from diverse sources, is becoming increasingly prevalent in various domains. The effective and efficient retrieval of such data is an important task. Although multi-view hashing techniques have offered a paradigm for fusing diverse information into compact binary codes, they typically assume attributes-based inputs per view. This makes them unsuitable for multi-view graph data, where effectively encoding …

The unimaginable can happen.
I couldn't imagine Trump becoming president.
Even less that he became it twice.
Now, for a change, something unimaginably good has to happen. We've earned it.
https://mas.to/@skeletor/115209005501995237

Inspirational Skeletor💀 (@skeletor@mas.to)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Rebecca Vasmant:
🎵 Becoming
#RebeccaVasmant
https://rebeccavasmantartist.bandcamp.com/album/who-we-are-becoming
https://open.spotify.com/track/2GSTkXRFVFLd1hIBc5Zedt

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/a-ca

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

Joint AP Selection and Power Allocation for Unicast-Multicast Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Mustafa S. Abbas, Zahra Mobini, Hien Quoc Ngo, Hyundong Shin, Michail Matthaiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13771

Joint AP Selection and Power Allocation for Unicast-Multicast Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Joint unicast and multicast transmissions are becoming increasingly important in practical wireless systems, such as Internet of Things networks. This paper investigates a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system that simultaneously supports both transmission types, with multicast serving multiple groups. Exact closed-form expressions for the achievable downlink spectral efficiency (SE) of both unicast and multicast users are derived for zero-forcing and maximum ratio precoding d…

Facing a situation where no guidance exists, it becomes a necessity to step forward, forging your own path and showing others the way. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-are-your-best-thing

you are your best thing
On becoming your own guide when no one shows you the way 🤍

Revealing Neurocognitive and Behavioral Patterns by Unsupervised Manifold Learning from Dynamic Brain Data
Zixia Zhou, Junyan Liu, Wei Emma Wu, Ruogu Fang, Sheng Liu, Qingyue Wei, Rui Yan, Yi Guo, Qian Tao, Yuanyuan Wang, Md Tauhidul Islam, Lei Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11672

Revealing Neurocognitive and Behavioral Patterns by Unsupervised Manifold Learning from Dynamic Brain Data
Dynamic brain data, teeming with biological and functional insights, are becoming increasingly accessible through advanced measurements, providing a gateway to understanding the inner workings of the brain in living subjects. However, the vast size and intricate complexity of the data also pose a daunting challenge in reliably extracting meaningful information across various data sources. This paper introduces a generalizable unsupervised deep manifold learning for exploration of neurocognitive…

Thanks to @… and @…, using #CoAP is becoming more accessible: The latest version of the

From @… over on BlueSky:
“God knows I hate saying the Mastodon crowd had it right, but those of us who are serious about living life in the reality lane are going to have to think long and hard about the resiliency of our information pipelines, at every stage.”

Controlling Multimodal LLMs via Reward-guided Decoding
Oscar Ma\~nas, Pierluca D'Oro, Koustuv Sinha, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal, Aishwarya Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11616

Controlling Multimodal LLMs via Reward-guided Decoding
As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) gain widespread applicability, it is becoming increasingly desirable to adapt them for diverse user needs. In this paper, we study the adaptation of MLLMs through controlled decoding. To achieve this, we introduce the first method for reward-guided decoding of MLLMs and demonstrate its application in improving their visual grounding. Our method involves building reward models for visual grounding and using them to guide the MLLM's decoding process. Co…

Ges-QA: A Multidimensional Quality Assessment Dataset for Audio-to-3D Gesture Generation
Zhilin Gao, Yunhao Li, Sijing Wu, Yuqin Cao, Huiyu Duan, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12020

Ges-QA: A Multidimensional Quality Assessment Dataset for Audio-to-3D Gesture Generation
The Audio-to-3D-Gesture (A2G) task has enormous potential for various applications in virtual reality and computer graphics, etc. However, current evaluation metrics, such as Fréchet Gesture Distance or Beat Constancy, fail at reflecting the human preference of the generated 3D gestures. To cope with this problem, exploring human preference and an objective quality assessment metric for AI-generated 3D human gestures is becoming increasingly significant. In this paper, we introduce the Ges-QA …

Bills QB Josh Allen ties for sixth-fastest to reach 200 career touchdown passes https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-qb-josh-allen-ties-sixth-fastest-200-career-touchdown-passes

PROTIP: filling your head with an incalculable amount of random bullshit is a shortcut to becoming funny! 😃

"‘Europe is becoming a solar powerhouse’: Solar tops EU electricity as coal sinks to new low"
#Europe #SolarPower #Energy

Solar becomes EU’s largest electricity source for the first time
The Netherlands and Greece were the top solar record setters, while wind power also hit new highs in May and June.

What Can Robots Teach Us About Trust and Reliance? An interdisciplinary dialogue between Social Sciences and Social Robotics
Julien Wacquez (ETIS, CNRS), Elisabetta Zibetti (CHART), Joffrey Becker (ENSEA, ETIS), Lorenzo Aloe (ETIS, CHART), Fabio Amadio (LARSEN), Salvatore Anzalone (CHART), Lola Ca\~namero (ETIS, CY, CNRS, ENSEA), Serena Ivaldi (LARSEN, LORIA - AIS)

What Can Robots Teach Us About Trust and Reliance? An interdisciplinary dialogue between Social Sciences and Social Robotics
As robots find their way into more and more aspects of everyday life, questions around trust are becoming increasingly important. What does it mean to trust a robot? And how should we think about trust in relationships that involve both humans and non-human agents? While the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has made trust a central topic, the concept is often approached in fragmented ways. At the same time, established work in sociology, where trust has long been a key theme, is rarely br…

Reliable high-accuracy error mitigation for utility-scale quantum circuits
Dorit Aharonov, Ori Alberton, Itai Arad, Yosi Atia, Eyal Bairey, Matan Ben Dov, Asaf Berkovitch, Zvika Brakerski, Itsik Cohen, Eran Fuchs, Omri Golan, Or Golan, Barak D. Gur, Ilya Gurwich, Avieli Haber, Rotem Haber, Dorri Halbertal, Yaron Itkin, Barak A. Katzir, Oded Kenneth, Shlomi Kotler, Roei Levi, Eyal Leviatan, Yotam Y. Lifshitz, Adi Ludmer, Shlomi Matityahu, Ron Aharon Melcer, Adiel Meyer, Omrie Ovdat, Avi…

Reliable high-accuracy error mitigation for utility-scale quantum circuits
Error mitigation is essential for unlocking the full potential of quantum algorithms and accelerating the timeline toward quantum advantage. As quantum hardware progresses to push the boundaries of classical simulation, efficient and robust error mitigation methods are becoming increasingly important for producing accurate and reliable outputs. We introduce QESEM, a reliable, high-accuracy, characterization-based software implementing efficient, unbiased quasi-probabilistic error mitigation. We…

🪸 Super corals could help buy time for reefs in a warming world
#coral

Super corals could help buy time for reefs in a warming world
Coral reefs are in crisis. Rising ocean temperatures driven by climate change are pushing these ecosystems to the brink, with mass bleaching events becoming more frequent and severe.

* Government complicit in committing genocide brands sabotaging genocide as terrorism
#uk #littleEngland #israel #genocide

Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in
The home secretary will move to proscribe Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, effectively branding them as a terrorist organisation, the BBC understands. Yvette Cooper is preparing a written statement before Parliament on Monday - which if passed will make becoming a member of the group …

Raiders 6’5″, 289-Pound Offseason Pickup is Turning Heads https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jonah-laulu/?adt_ei=[email]

Multi-Channel Differential ASR for Robust Wearer Speech Recognition on Smart Glasses
Yufeng Yang, Yiteng Huang, Yong Xu, Li Wan, Suwon Shon, Yang Liu, Yifeng Fan, Zhaojun Yang, Olivier Siohan, Yue Liu, Ming Sun, Florian Metze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14430

Multi-Channel Differential ASR for Robust Wearer Speech Recognition on Smart Glasses
With the growing adoption of wearable devices such as smart glasses for AI assistants, wearer speech recognition (WSR) is becoming increasingly critical to next-generation human-computer interfaces. However, in real environments, interference from side-talk speech remains a significant challenge to WSR and may cause accumulated errors for downstream tasks such as natural language processing. In this work, we introduce a novel multi-channel differential automatic speech recognition (ASR) method …

New: Podcast REMIX: Tracy McCubbin on having a parent who hoards and becoming a professional organising superstar https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-remix-tracy-mccubbin-on-ha…

Clarity Dawns: Human Beings, Nature, and Becoming
#becoming #BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2019/clari…

Clarity Dawns: Human Beings, Nature, and Becoming
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Age of Information Aided Intelligent Grant-Free Massive Access for Heterogeneous mMTC Traffic
Zhongwen Sun, Wei Chen, Yuxuan Sun, Bo Ai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14503 https://…

Age of Information Aided Intelligent Grant-Free Massive Access for Heterogeneous mMTC Traffic
With the arrival of 6G, the Internet of Things (IoT) traffic is becoming more and more complex and diverse. To meet the diverse service requirements of IoT devices, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) becomes a typical scenario, and more recently, grant-free random access (GF-RA) presents a promising direction due to its low signaling overhead. However, existing GF-RA research primarily focuses on improving the accuracy of user detection and data recovery, without considering the heterog…

As if I needed another reason to ignore Dean Cain....
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/07/former-superman-actor-dean-cain-reveals-hes-becoming-an-ice-agent-to-sup…

"AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other f…

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Satwik Ghanta, Peggy Gregory, Gul Calikli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12466 ht…

Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is slowly becoming an industry need for reasons including reputation enhancement, improved profits and more efficient practices. However, SSE has many definitions, and this is a challenge for organisations trying to build a common and broadly agreed understanding of the term. Although much research effort has gone into identifying general SSE practices, there is a gap in understanding the sustainability needs of specific organisational contexts, such as fi…

Efficient computation of thermal radiation from biperiodic layered systems using the T-matrix method
Martin Gabbert, Markus Nyman, Lukas Rebholz, Carsten Rockstuhl, Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11590

Efficient computation of thermal radiation from biperiodic layered systems using the T-matrix method
Metasurfaces are becoming important tools for the control of thermal radiation. Understanding their functional possibilities on computational grounds requires evaluating the response of the biperiodic layered system for many degrees of freedom, including several radiation directions and polarisations, while varying lattice spacing, thicknesses, and/or materials of homogeneous layers, over a range of frequencies. The diverse set of cases that need to be considered in simulations prompts for effi…

A Semi-Supervised Learning Method for the Identification of Bad Exposures in Large Imaging Surveys
Yufeng Luo, Adam D. Myers, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Dario Dematties, Salma Borchani, Frank Valdes, Arjun Dey, David Schlegel, Rongpu Zhou, DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12784

A Semi-Supervised Learning Method for the Identification of Bad Exposures in Large Imaging Surveys
As the data volume of astronomical imaging surveys rapidly increases, traditional methods for image anomaly detection, such as visual inspection by human experts, are becoming impractical. We introduce a machine-learning-based approach to detect poor-quality exposures in large imaging surveys, with a focus on the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in regions of low extinction (i.e., $E(B-V)<0.04$). Our semi-supervised pipeline integrates a vision transformer (ViT), trained via self-supervised learnin…

One of the most worrying things I find about LLMs at the moment is how normalised it's becoming to just chat to it like a friend or confidant and even so far as to ask it for therapy. I don't mean amongst tech bros and nerds, I mean amongst normal people.
It just seems so reckless. Aside from the problem of hallucinations, these things are built to have an agenda. No sane person should ever ever ever ask Zuckerberg, Musk or Altman for a mental health vibe check

Collaborative Trustworthiness for Good Decision Making in Autonomous Systems
Selma Saidi, Omar Laimona, Christoph Schmickler, Dirk Ziegenbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11135

Collaborative Trustworthiness for Good Decision Making in Autonomous Systems
Autonomous systems are becoming an integral part of many application domains, like in the mobility sector. However, ensuring their safe and correct behaviour in dynamic and complex environments remains a significant challenge, where systems should autonomously make decisions e.g., about manoeuvring. We propose in this paper a general collaborative approach for increasing the level of trustworthiness in the environment of operation and improve reliability and good decision making in autonomous s…

TACR-YOLO: A Real-time Detection Framework for Abnormal Human Behaviors Enhanced with Coordinate and Task-Aware Representations
Xinyi Yin, Wenbo Yuan, Xuecheng Wu, Liangyu Fu, Danlei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11478

TACR-YOLO: A Real-time Detection Framework for Abnormal Human Behaviors Enhanced with Coordinate and Task-Aware Representations
Abnormal Human Behavior Detection (AHBD) under special scenarios is becoming increasingly crucial. While YOLO-based detection methods excel in real-time tasks, they remain hindered by challenges including small objects, task conflicts, and multi-scale fusion in AHBD. To tackle them, we propose TACR-YOLO, a new real-time framework for AHBD. We introduce a Coordinate Attention Module to enhance small object detection, a Task-Aware Attention Module to deal with classification-regression conflicts,…

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 2 images The new map is officially out! Download here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/etelande-free-custom-realistic-minecraft-mountain-range-2-5k-x-2-5k-1-21-5/ #minecraft #minecraftmap #terrain

zkToken: Empowering Holders to Limit Revocation Checks for Verifiable Credentials
Praveensankar Manimaran, Mayank Raikwar, Thiago Garrett, Arlindo F. da Concei\c{c}\~ao, Leander Jehl, Roman Vitenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11934

zkToken: Empowering Holders to Limit Revocation Checks for Verifiable Credentials
Systems managing Verifiable Credentials are becoming increasingly popular. Unfortunately, their support for revoking previously issued credentials allows verifiers to effectively monitor the validity of the credentials, which is sensitive information. While the issue started to gain recognition, no adequate solution has been proposed so far. In this work, we propose a novel framework for time-limited continuous verification. The holder is able to individually configure the verification period…

andrew callaghan and hunter biden hitting it out and basically becoming mates over the course of a couple interviews is so cool to see ngl

The discourse around #Kirk is increasingly becoming an inversion of J. Butler's concept of #grievability. But instead of describing which group gets denied the mourning of society the opposite happens:
Now, society gets prescribed whom it absolutely has to mourn under duress.
We h…

I think it's becoming abundantly clear that we are witnessing the death throes of #TOTP. It's surprising it still took another few years to finally put it out of its misery.

The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
Rongyi Chen, Ziyan Xin, Qing Xiao, Ruiwei Xiao, Jingjia Xiao, Bingbing Zhang, Hong Shen, Zhicong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10957

The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
The digital transformation of religious practice has reshaped how billions of people engage with spiritual content, with video-sharing platforms becoming central to contemporary religious communication. Yet HCI research lacks systematic understanding of how narrative and visual elements create meaningful spiritual experiences and foster viewer engagement. We present a mixed-methods study of religious videos on YouTube across major religions, developing taxonomies of narrative frameworks, visual…

Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system, Bill McKibben writes.

Coordinated Reinforcement Learning Prefetching Architecture for Multicore Systems
Mohammed Humaid Siddiqui, Fernando Guzman, Yufei Wu, Ruishu Ann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10719

Coordinated Reinforcement Learning Prefetching Architecture for Multicore Systems
Hardware prefetching is critical to fill the performance gap between CPU speeds and slower memory accesses. With multicore architectures becoming commonplace, traditional prefetchers are severely challenged. Independent core operation creates significant redundancy (up to 20% of prefetch requests are duplicates), causing unnecessary memory bus traffic and wasted bandwidth. Furthermore, cutting-edge prefetchers such as Pythia suffer from about a 10% performance loss when scaling from a single-co…

What Browns naming Joe Flacco QB1 means for Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46009070/what-joe-flacco-browns-qb-starter-means-shedeur-sanders-dillon-gabriel

David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents, has died at 83 from Lewy body dementia (Clyde Haberman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/politics/david-gergen-dead.html

David Gergen, Adviser to Presidents and Political Commentator, Dies at 83
He served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton before becoming a top editor and a familiar TV pundit. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said.

Very-low-field MRI scanners: from the ideal to the real permanent magnet array
Umberto Zanovello, Alessandro Arduino, Vittorio Basso, Luca Zilberti, Alessandro Sola, Andrea Agosto, Luca Toso, Oriano Bottauscio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11762

Very-low-field MRI scanners: from the ideal to the real permanent magnet array
Very-low-field MRIs are becoming increasingly popular due to their portability and adaptability to different environments. They are being successfully used for various clinical applications, leading to a paradigm shift in the way imaging care is typically performed. The development of low-cost MRI scanner prototypes began a few years ago, with some interesting and promising open-source projects emerging in both hardware and software design. Using permanent magnets (PMs) to generate the static m…

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

The stranger in “Wayfaring” unmasked #becoming #humanbeings https://muz4now.com/2025/the-stranger-

The stranger in "Wayfaring" unmasked
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Approaches to Analysis and Design of AI-Based Autonomous Vehicles
Tao Yan, Zheyu Zhang, Jingjing Jiang, Wen-Hua Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12169 https://

Approaches to Analysis and Design of AI-Based Autonomous Vehicles
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are becoming key components in an autonomous vehicle (AV), especially in handling complicated perception tasks. However, closing the loop through AI-based feedback may pose significant risks on reliability of autonomous driving due to very limited understanding about the mechanism of AI-driven perception processes. To overcome it, this paper aims to develop tools for modeling, analysis, and synthesis for a class of AI-based AV; in particular, their closed-loo…

Me, writing up post-class notes about mergesort.
Google Docs: have you considered becoming a finbro instead? I hear it's very vogue in 2025.

"You’re one step away from becoming an analytics leader for the digital age.
Northeastern University’s Master of Professional Studies in Analytics program provides in-demand skills, resumé-building experiences, and flexible learning options so you can help organizations make better data-driven decisions."
dear #LinkedIn , I am 80 yrs old. And you are

Lawsuit rips MIT for becoming 'breeding ground' for antisemitism (Valerie Richardson/Washington Times)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/25/lawsuit-rips-mit-becoming-breeding-ground-antisemitism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p78#a250625p78

Design and accuracy trade-offs in Computational Statistics
Tiancheng Xu, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Design and accuracy trade-offs in Computational Statistics
Statistical computations are becoming increasingly important. These computations often need to be performed in log-space because probabilities become extremely small due to repeated multiplications. While using logarithms effectively prevents numerical underflow, this paper shows that its cost is high in performance, resource utilization, and, notably, numerical accuracy. This paper then argues that using posit, a recently proposed floating-point format, is a better strategy for statistical com…

Microsoft Windows head Pavan Davuluri says the next Windows version will be more ambient, pervasive and multi-modal, with voice becoming more important (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
In a new video, Microsoft CVP and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has teased that the future of Windows will consist of a truly ambient and multi-modal experience made possible by AI that will redefine our usage of computers.

Emerging Paradigms in the Energy Sector: Forecasting and System Control Optimisation
Dariush Pourkeramati, Gareth Wadge, Rachel Hassall, Charlotte Mitchell, Anish Khadka, Shiwang Jaiswal, Andrew Duncan, Rossella Arcucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12373

Emerging Paradigms in the Energy Sector: Forecasting and System Control Optimisation
The energy sector is experiencing rapid transformation due to increasing renewable energy integration, decentralisation of power systems, and a heightened focus on efficiency and sustainability. With energy demand becoming increasingly dynamic and generation sources more variable, advanced forecasting and optimisation strategies are crucial for maintaining grid stability, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. This paper explores emerging paradigms in energy forecasting and manag…

"Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air"
#US #USA #America #Heatwave

Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air
Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous in already hot places like Texas. In 2023, more than 300 people in Texas died from heat, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. Researchers found it may not only be temperatures that make heat waves unsafe but also the heat-related increase in airborne pollutants.

Leadership can sometimes mean stepping into uncharted territory without any guide. In such situations, you become both the traveller and the mapmaker. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-are-your-best-thing

you are your best thing
On becoming your own guide when no one shows you the way 🤍

Build it and they will come.
In spring 2024, 11% of trips in Paris were made by bicycle and 4.2% by car. In 2010, the cycling share was just 3%.
This year, records have been broken on a monthly basis at many cycle counters. Existing cycle paths are becoming congested and need to be widened.
From: @…

it was always a myth that there was a clear distinction between "illegal immigrants" and people immigrating "the right way" but it's becoming even more insane now that they're like retconning the existence of visas, green cards, and birthright citizenship
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/115198…

Walking in the park today: a woman discussing with a friend some issues with becoming the third in a relationship. She wants clarity around boundaries, things like is it ok to use *that* bed, and the guy has been unhelpfully vague. Friend is supportive. I suspect it's doomed.

Were I on a jury I would not vote to convict any of the people seized (I won't honor those acts with the word "arrest") by ICE.
But, of course, none of these people will ever see the inside of a US courtroom, much less obtain benefit of legal counsel and a trial.
The people being seized are becoming increasingly aware that they are going to be sent without due process to a near-death camp in the US or a real death camp outside of the US. So it is understandable tha…

Federal immigration agents carry out sweeps at Ventura County farms
Protesters blocked the roads in and out of one of the farms and at one point federal agents drove their vehicles through the fields.

All the premises (axioms?) of Liquid Glass design are weird and wrong.
Especially the basic premise of "content is more important than the user interface".
Not even going into how the moniker "content" devalues creative human work—the real problem about this is that it's simply bullshit.
In human-computer interaction content and the user interface to interact with it are normally equally important—with the interaction elements becoming _more important_ while an interaction is either imminent or taking place.
The most basic thing is to make buttons look like buttons and not change how they look like depending on what's behind them, as well as not make them move around so you can easily recognize, find and tap or click them.

Interesting stuff. This touches on a lot of work that was on my todo list. Especially estimating the "interestingness" of data by measuring the maximum compute needed to reach the optimal compression.
AIT is definitely becoming practically relevant.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07995

Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search
According to Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) -- Intelligent representations compress data into the shortest possible program that can reconstruct its content, exhibiting low Kolmogorov Complexity (KC). In contrast, most visual representation learning systems use fixed-length representations for all inputs, ignoring variations in complexity or familiarity. Recent adaptive tokenization methods address this by allocating variable-length representations but typically require test-time search o…

Jordan Meredith has embraced 'becoming comfortable in the uncomfortable areas' https://www.raiders.com/news/jordan-meredith-has-embraced-becoming-comfortable-in-the-uncomfortable-areas

If you have a half reasonable MP (UK) this is an urgent action.
This Government has effectively banned refugees from ever becoming citizens.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 1 July at 4:30pm, MPs will debate the refugee citizenship ban.
Email your MP: Parliament Citizenship debate https://…

Tell your MP: Stand against the Refugee Citizenship Ban
This Government has effectively banned refugees from ever becoming citizens. But we won’t stand for it!

Fuck our purity tests. #DavidGergen cared for our polity and nation, even as he spun for his political bosses. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/poli

With Kenny Clark's addition, UCLA becoming pipeline for Cowboys DTs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-kenny-clark-s-addition-ucla-becoming-pipeline-for-cowboys-dts

Rearming Europe: how Ukraine is becoming a key to security: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/rearming-europe-how-ukraine-is.html

Green Recommender Systems: Understanding and Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of AI-Powered Personalization
Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente, Alan Said, Joeran Beel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13001

Green Recommender Systems: Understanding and Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of AI-Powered Personalization
As global warming soars, the need to assess and reduce the environmental impact of recommender systems is becoming increasingly urgent. Despite this, the recommender systems community hardly understands, addresses, and evaluates the environmental impact of their work. In this study, we examine the environmental impact of recommender systems research by reproducing typical experimental pipelines. Based on our results, we provide guidelines for researchers and practitioners on how to minimize the…

Distributed Integrated Sensing, Localization, and Communications over LEO Satellite Constellations
Yuchen Zhang, Francis Soualle, Musa Furkan Keskin, Yuan Liu, Linlong Wu, Jos\'e A. del Peral-Rosado, Bhavani Shankar M. R., Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Henk Wymeersch, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11029

Distributed Integrated Sensing, Localization, and Communications over LEO Satellite Constellations
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are rapidly becoming essential enablers of next-generation wireless systems, offering global broadband access, high-precision localization, and reliable sensing beyond terrestrial coverage. However, the inherent limitations of individual LEO satellites, including restricted power, limited antenna aperture, and constrained onboard processing, hinder their ability to meet the growing demands of 6G applications. To address these challenges, this artic…

Closed Form Time Derivatives of the Equations of Motion of Rigid Body Systems
Andreas Mueller, Shivesh Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11076 https://

Closed Form Time Derivatives of the Equations of Motion of Rigid Body Systems
Derivatives of equations of motion(EOM) describing the dynamics of rigid body systems are becoming increasingly relevant for the robotics community and find many applications in design and control of robotic systems. Controlling robots, and multibody systems comprising elastic components in particular, not only requires smooth trajectories but also the time derivatives of the control forces/torques, hence of the EOM. This paper presents the time derivatives of the EOM in closed form up to secon…

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Adriano Castro, Simon Hanisch, Matin Fallahi, Thorsten Strufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11138

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises novel privacy concerns. With mixed reality systems becoming more immersive and widespread, understanding whether face motion data can lead to user identification or inference of sensitive attributes is increasingly important. To address this, we conducted a stu…

💔 Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
#forests

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon sinks, is becoming increasingly weaker.

Living with Data: Exploring Physicalization Approaches to Sedentary Behavior Intervention for the Elderly
Siying Hu, Zhenhao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11059 https://

Living with Data: Exploring Physicalization Approaches to Sedentary Behavior Intervention for the Elderly
Sedentary behavior is a critical health risk for older adults. While digital interventions exist, they often rely on screen-based notifications that feel clinical and are easily ignored. This paper presents a Research through Design inquiry into data physicalization as a humane alternative. We designed and deployed tangible artifacts that ambiently represent sedentary patterns in older adults' homes. These artifacts transform abstract data into aesthetic, evolving forms, becoming part of the do…

Developer-LLM Conversations: An Empirical Study of Interactions and Generated Code Quality
Suzhen Zhong, Ying Zou, Bram Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10402 https://

Developer-LLM Conversations: An Empirical Study of Interactions and Generated Code Quality
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming integral to modern software development workflows, assisting developers with code generation, API explanation, and iterative problem-solving through natural language conversations. Despite widespread adoption, there is limited understanding of how developers interact with LLMs in practice and how these conversational dynamics influence task outcomes, code quality, and software engineering workflows. To address this, we leverage CodeChat, a large dataset…

Jordan Meredith has embraced 'becoming comfortable in the uncomfortable areas' https://www.raiders.com/news/jordan-meredith-has-embraced-becoming-comfortable-in-the-uncomfortable-areas

Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI accelerators, US manufacturing, becoming AMD CEO in 2014, aiming to surpass Nvidia, OpenAI, Tesla, xAI, China, ROCm, and more (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/lisa-su-runs-amd-and-is-out-for-nvidias-blood/…

Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood
While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all.

Openness in AI and downstream governance: A global value chain approach
Christopher Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1022…

Openness in AI and downstream governance: A global value chain approach
The rise of AI has been rapid, becoming a leading sector for investment and promising disruptive impacts across the economy. Within the critical analysis of the economic impacts, AI has been aligned to the critical literature on data power and platform capitalism - further concentrating power and value capture amongst a small number of "big tech" leaders. The equally rapid rise of openness in AI (here taken to be claims made by AI firms about openness, "open source" and free provision) signal…

With Kenny Clark's addition, UCLA becoming pipeline for Cowboys DTs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-kenny-clark-s-addition-ucla-becoming-pipeline-for-cowboys-dts

becoming tired of everything eventually is the right thing to do

Learning to Quantize and Precode in Massive MIMO Systems for Energy Reduction: a Graph Neural Network Approach
Thomas Feys, Liesbet Van der Perre, Fran\c{c}ois Rottenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10634

Learning to Quantize and Precode in Massive MIMO Systems for Energy Reduction: a Graph Neural Network Approach
Massive MIMO systems are moving toward increased numbers of radio frequency chains, higher carrier frequencies and larger bandwidths. As such, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are becoming a bottleneck in terms of hardware complexity and power consumption. In this work, non-linear precoding for coarsely quantized downlink massive MIMO is studied. Given the NP-hard nature of this problem, a graph neural network (GNN) is proposed that directly outputs the precoded quantized vector based on the…

Webtoon Entertainment is rebranding and reorganizing its North American entertainment and IP business, with Wattpad Webtoon Studios becoming Webtoon Productions (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Webtoon Rebands, Reoganizes North American Entertainment, IP Business (Exclusive)
David Madden has been elevated to president of the new Webtoon Productions, among other changes.  

GAMMA: Generalizable Alignment via Multi-task and Manipulation-Augmented Training for AI-Generated Image Detection
Haozhen Yan, Yan Hong, Suning Lang, Jiahui Zhan, Yikun Ji, Yujie Gao, Jun Lan, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Jianfu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10250

GAMMA: Generalizable Alignment via Multi-task and Manipulation-Augmented Training for AI-Generated Image Detection
With generative models becoming increasingly sophisticated and diverse, detecting AI-generated images has become increasingly challenging. While existing AI-genereted Image detectors achieve promising performance on in-distribution generated images, their generalization to unseen generative models remains limited. This limitation is largely attributed to their reliance on generation-specific artifacts, such as stylistic priors and compression patterns. To address these limitations, we propose G…

"Summer 2025 was UK's hottest on record and experts say 'extremes' like this are becoming more common"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

UK saw hottest summer since record began in 2025, Met Office says
Climate scientists say summers as hot or hotter than 2025 in the UK are 70 times more likely due to climate change.

Aligned Query Expansion: Efficient Query Expansion for Information Retrieval through LLM Alignment
Adam Yang, Gustavo Penha, Enrico Palumbo, Hugues Bouchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11042

Aligned Query Expansion: Efficient Query Expansion for Information Retrieval through LLM Alignment
With the breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs), query generation techniques that expand documents and queries with related terms are becoming increasingly popular in the information retrieval field. Such techniques have been shown to improve the effectiveness of traditional lexical retrieval methods by dealing with the vocabulary mismatch problem. Recent work has found that generating queries with a greedy decoding strategy can produce sub-optimal queries, including hallucinations, and …

A Multimodal Neural Network for Recognizing Subjective Self-Disclosure Towards Social Robots
Henry Powell, Guy Laban, Emily S. Cross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10828 https://

A Multimodal Neural Network for Recognizing Subjective Self-Disclosure Towards Social Robots
Subjective self-disclosure is an important feature of human social interaction. While much has been done in the social and behavioural literature to characterise the features and consequences of subjective self-disclosure, little work has been done thus far to develop computational systems that are able to accurately model it. Even less work has been done that attempts to model specifically how human interactants self-disclose with robotic partners. It is becoming more pressing as we require so…

Security Analysis of ChatGPT: Threats and Privacy Risks
Yushan Xiang, Zhongwen Li, Xiaoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09426 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09…

Security Analysis of ChatGPT: Threats and Privacy Risks
As artificial intelligence technology continues to advance, chatbots are becoming increasingly powerful. Among them, ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI, has garnered widespread attention globally due to its powerful natural language processing capabilities based on the GPT model, which enables it to engage in natural conversations with users, understand various forms of linguistic expressions, and generate useful information and suggestions. However, as its application scope expands, user demand grows…

Forgery Guided Learning Strategy with Dual Perception Network for Deepfake Cross-domain Detection
Lixin Jia, Zhiqing Guo, Gaobo Yang, Liejun Wang, Keqin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10741

Forgery Guided Learning Strategy with Dual Perception Network for Deepfake Cross-domain Detection
The emergence of deepfake technology has introduced a range of societal problems, garnering considerable attention. Current deepfake detection methods perform well on specific datasets, but exhibit poor performance when applied to datasets with unknown forgery techniques. Moreover, as the gap between emerging and traditional forgery techniques continues to widen, cross-domain detection methods that rely on common forgery traces are becoming increasingly ineffective. This situation highlights th…

Cowboys Kicker Brandon Aubrey on Historic 2025 NFL Scoring Pace https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-kicker-brandon-aubrey-on-historic-2025-nfl-scoring-pace

'Taylor knows ball': Highlights from Swift's appearance on Kelce's 'New Heights' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45960540/taylor-swift-appearance-new-heights-best-moments

"England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EU #EuropeanUnion

Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/asml-becomes-mistral…

"How Britain can beat the heat without becoming addicted to air conditioning"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave #Climate

How Britain can beat the heat without becoming addicted to air conditioning
The UK faces a choice: lock into energy-hungry cooling, or redesign homes, streets and routines to stay cool naturally.

The term "superintelligence" is becoming increasingly popular among AI leaders, even as many in the industry question whether it is ill-defined and overhyped (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)