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A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and U.S. legal resident, was deported in March, when the Trump administration wrongly alleged, without evidence, that he was associated with the MS-13 gang. When it became clear that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was improper, the administrati…

Judge Bars Trump Admin From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia After Release
“I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way,” Abrego Garcia said.

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

Linguistic trajectories of bipolar disorder on social media
Laurin Plank, Armin Zlomuzica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10035 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10035…

Linguistic trajectories of bipolar disorder on social media
Language provides valuable markers of affective disorders such as bipolar disorder (BD), yet clinical assessments remain limited in scale. In response, analyses of social media (SM) language have gained prominence due to their high temporal resolution and longitudinal scope. Here, we introduce a method to determine the timing of users' diagnoses and apply it to study language trajectories from 3 years before to 21 years after BD diagnosis - contrasted with uses reporting unipolar depression (UD…

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest
Xiao Yang, Peifeng Yin, Abe Engle, Jinfeng Zhuang, Ling Leng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09857

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest
The lightweight ad ranking layer, living after the retrieval stage and before the fine ranker, plays a critical role in the success of a cascaded ad recommendation system. Due to the fact that there are multiple optimization tasks depending on the ad domain, e.g., Click Through Rate (CTR) for click ads and Conversion Rate (CVR) for conversion ads, as well as multiple surfaces where an ad is served (home feed, search, or related item recommendation) with diverse ad products (shopping or standard…

Analysis: Fox News' coverage of Portland ICE protests ahead of Trump's call to send in the National Guard often mischaracterized 2020 videos as being from 2025 (Rob Davis/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-g…

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

Apple and Google have released several software updates
to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users.
On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser,
-- noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to patch it. 
Unusually for Google, the company provided no further details at the time.  But on Friday, Google updated the page to say that t…

Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks | TechCrunch
Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

In-situ Radiation Damage Study of Silicon Carbide Detectors Subjected to Clinical Proton Beams
Daniel Radmanovac, Andreas Gsponer, Simon Waid, Sebastian Onder, Matthias Knopf, J\"urgen Burin, Stefan Gundacker, Thomas Bergauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11304

In-situ Radiation Damage Study of Silicon Carbide Detectors Subjected to Clinical Proton Beams
Silicon carbide (SiC) planar PiN diodes from two different manufacturers were irradiated with 252.7 MeV protons from a medical synchrotron. Over the course of two 8h irradiation shifts, the samples were exposed to increasing fluences ranging from 1.4e+11 to 3.5e+13 p+/cm^2. Electrical characterizations, including IV and CV measurements, were performed both before and after irradiation using probe stations, and for selected samples even in-situ between fluence steps directly at the irradiation f…

Optimal annuitization with labor income under age-dependent force of mortality
Criscent Birungi, Cody Hyndman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10371 https://arxi…

Optimal annuitization with labor income under age-dependent force of mortality
We consider the problem of optimal annuitization with labour income, where an agent aims to maximize utility from consumption and labour income under age-dependent force of mortality. Using a dynamic programming approach, we derive closed-form solutions for the value function and the optimal consumption, portfolio, and labor supply strategies. Our results show that before retirement, investment behavior increases with wealth until a threshold set by labor supply. After retirement, agents tend t…

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

There and Back Again: Bulk-to-Defect via Ward Identities
Jake Belton, Ziwen Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08519

There and Back Again: Bulk-to-Defect via Ward Identities
In conformal field theory, the presence of a defect partially breaks the global symmetry, giving rise to defect operators such as the tilts. In this work, we derive integral identities that relate correlation functions involving bulk and defect operators -- including tilts -- to lower-point bulk-defect correlators, based on a detailed analysis of the Lie algebra of the symmetry group before and after the defect-induced symmetry breaking. As explicit examples, we illustrate these identities for …

Are We Using the Right Benchmark: An Evaluation Framework for Visual Token Compression Methods
Chenfei Liao, Wensong Wang, Zichen Wen, Xu Zheng, Yiyu Wang, Haocong He, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Lutao Jiang, Xin Zou, Yuqian Fu, Bin Ren, Linfeng Zhang, Xuming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07143

Are We Using the Right Benchmark: An Evaluation Framework for Visual Token Compression Methods
Recent endeavors to accelerate inference in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have primarily focused on visual token compression. The effectiveness of these methods is typically assessed by measuring the accuracy drop on established benchmarks, comparing model performance before and after compression. However, these benchmarks are originally designed to assess the perception and reasoning capabilities of MLLMs, rather than to evaluate compression techniques. As a result, directly applyin…

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Ziv Ben-Zion, Zohar Elyoseph, Tobias Spiller, Teddy Lazebnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06222

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from text generators to autonomous agents, raising urgent questions about their reliability in real-world contexts. Stress and anxiety are well known to bias human decision-making, particularly in consumer choices. Here, we tested whether LLM agents exhibit analogous vulnerabilities. Three advanced models (ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.5-Sonnet) performed a grocery shopping task under budget constraints (24, 54, 108 USD), before and after expo…

'Just put on a helmet' - Pope's scooter advice to England.
I saw this headline on my feed and thought goodness me, what's the pontiff wading into now? and "sound advice before we ban these things".
But no it's just some bloke called Pope and his cricket mates.
https://www.b…

The Ashes: Ollie Pope tells England team-mates to wear helmets on scooters
Ollie Pope tells his England team-mates to “put on a helmet” after they were caught riding e-scooters in Brisbane without them.

A Wave of Resignations in the Aftermath of Remote Onboarding
Darja Smite, Franz Zieris, Lars-Ola Damm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05878 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A Wave of Resignations in the Aftermath of Remote Onboarding
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently altered workplace structures, normalizing remote work. However, critical evidence highlights challenges with fully remote arrangements, particularly for software teams. This study investigates employee resignation patterns at Ericsson, a global developer of software-intensive systems, before, during, and after the pandemic. Using HR data from 2016-2025 in Ericsson Sweden, we analyze how different work modalities (onsite, remote, and hybrid) influence employ…

“Just spoke with my CDC sources.
They said RFK Jr. has instructed officials in California to hide tuberculosis cases after seven people tested positive.
He’s doing the same with bird flu and other emerging infectious diseases.”
#covid #tb

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@sarscov2covid19)
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has instructed officials in California to hide tuberculosis cases after seven people tested positive. He’s doing the same with bird flu and other emerging infectious diseases. Before a virus spreads, concealment spreads first. I report on bird flu, COVID-19, tuberculosis, and other emerging threats straight from the frontline. I need your support. Please subscribe to my Substack, follow my page and help spread the truth.

From Bill McKibben
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again. He’s explained that up until 2006—i.e., 18 years after Jim Hansen’s testimony before Congress laying out the science, and well past the point where George W. Bush had acknowledged its reality—he like Trump thought the whole thing was a crock."

Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo
The problem is neither the camera, nor the usage of "AI". The problem is simpler: too many weapons on civilians hands and police impunity.

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

"On July 23rd, 1984, the song was recorded at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie with the entire band. The song was played and recorded live. After 21 minutes the tape was full and the band were still playing."
It was never released before, with a reason, 21 minutes is a bit long 😆, still interesting for any Prince fan. And the song has an amazing groove...

America (12" Version) - 2025 Remaster
Prince · Around the World in a Day (Deluxe Edition) [2025 Remaster] · Song · 2025

Memos: Amazon, which employs the most H-1B holders at 14K , and Microsoft advise H-1B staff to avoid travel and return to the US before 12:01am ET on Sept. 21 (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/20/trump-h-1b-visa-tech-foreign-governments.html

Big Tech companies, foreign governments scramble after Trump slaps $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas
The announcement to impose a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas sent shockwaves through corporate America.

OMFG.
A post-C section mother who was an asylum seeker seeking a visa for crime victims
-- and who had a newborn baby struggling in the NICU
-- was held in Broadview in Chicago with no medical attention (POST C SECTION),
no breast pump (right after birth),
and no treatment for her diabetes.
MONSTERS.
-- John Pfaff

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…

Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
About the current state of Cara— Hi all, I’d like to address some users' concerns about Cara’s stability, algorithms and reach, and why we don’t actively promote Cara and recruit new users. I have touched on most of these before through other posts, but I’ll like to go over the main points and put them in one place since they often come up as recurring questions: — Cara’s longevity/stability > "A few weeks ago, after learning how much Jingna was struggling with her personal l…

Azimuthal Misalignments in Stellar Warp Structure as Dynamical Tracers of Mergers in Milky Way-like Galaxies
Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Elena D'Onghia, Robert Benjamin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04194 …

Azimuthal Misalignments in Stellar Warp Structure as Dynamical Tracers of Mergers in Milky Way-like Galaxies
We investigate the origin of warps in stellar disks using high-resolution Milky Way analogs from the IllustrisTNG50 simulation. Focusing on galaxies that experienced a major merger, we identify a characteristic azimuthal misalignment between the warp structures of stellar populations formed before and after the merger. This misalignment persists even after correcting for differential rotation, suggesting it is a dynamical imprint of the merger rather than a consequence of internal kinematics. I…

SeedPrints: Fingerprints Can Even Tell Which Seed Your Large Language Model Was Trained From
Yao Tong, Haonan Wang, Siquan Li, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tianyang Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26404

SeedPrints: Fingerprints Can Even Tell Which Seed Your Large Language Model Was Trained From
Fingerprinting Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for provenance verification and model attribution. Existing methods typically extract post-hoc signatures based on training dynamics, data exposure, or hyperparameters -- properties that only emerge after training begins. In contrast, we propose a stronger and more intrinsic notion of LLM fingerprinting: SeedPrints, a method that leverages random initialization biases as persistent, seed-dependent identifiers present even before training.…

hey does anyone have a copy of Windows 11 http.sys before and after build 26100.6899, or (since you probably don't want to roll back or install the update just for this purpose) can you run ApplyDeltaB* to materialize the file from WinSxS?
* https://github.com/whitequark/ApplyDeltaB…

GitHub - whitequark/ApplyDeltaB: An utility to apply Windows Update binary patches (i.e. call msdelta.dll!ApplyDeltaB)
An utility to apply Windows Update binary patches (i.e. call msdelta.dll!ApplyDeltaB) - whitequark/ApplyDeltaB

Empirical correlation between masses of black holes and Wolf-Rayet stars derived from their mass distributions in spectroscopic binaries
Konstantin Postnov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow), Ivan Shaposhnikov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow), Anatol Cherepashchuk (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow)
https://arxiv.o…

Empirical correlation between masses of black holes and Wolf-Rayet stars derived from their mass distributions in spectroscopic binaries
We present observationally determined mass distributions of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in WR+OB binaries and black holes (BH) in spectroscopic binaries. Both WR and BH mass probability distributions can be well approximated by unbiased log-normal functions. Assuming that all WR stars with $M_\mathrm{WR}\gtrsim 6 M_\odot$ after core collapse are progenitors of the BHs, the similar shape of their mass distributions before and after collapse suggests a power-law relation between them $M_{\mathrm{BH}} \…

More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…

More than 60,000 penguins starve to death near Africa after fall in sardine numbers
African penguins need sardines to fatten up before a three-week moulting period on land

Starting up Triangle (2009) after noticing it on Tubi the other day, before I pass out. Will finish it and the Rabid remake tomorrow. Seems like Triangle is probably gonna be a real mindfuck (not gore or anything, I don't believe). Psychological thriller? We'll see. As usual, going in cold, no idea.
https://boxd.it/1tQG

Triangle (2009)
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

Slant sums of quiver gauge theories
Hunter Dinkins, Vasily Krylov, Reese Lance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02496

Slant sums of quiver gauge theories
We define a notion of slant sum of quiver gauge theories, a type of surgery on the underlying quiver. Under some mild assumptions, we relate torus fixed points on the corresponding Higgs branches, which are Nakajima quiver varieties. Then we prove a formula relating the quasimap vertex functions before and after a slant sum, which is a type of ``branching rule" for vertex functions. Our construction is motivated by a conjecture, which we make here, for the factorization of the vertex function…

From Affine to Polynomial: Synthesizing Loops with Branches via Algebraic Geometry
Erdenebayar Bayarmagnai, Fatemeh Mohammadi, R\'emi Pr\'ebet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25114

From Affine to Polynomial: Synthesizing Loops with Branches via Algebraic Geometry
Ensuring software correctness remains a fundamental challenge in formal program verification. One promising approach relies on finding polynomial invariants for loops. Polynomial invariants are properties of a program loop that hold before and after each iteration. Generating such invariants is a crucial task in loop analysis, but it is undecidable in the general case. Recently, an alternative approach to this problem has emerged, focusing on synthesizing loops from invariants. However, existin…

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
Johan Lin{\aa}ker, Cailean Osborne, Jennifer Ding, Ben Burtenshaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25397

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
The proliferation of open large language models (LLMs) is fostering a vibrant ecosystem of research and innovation in artificial intelligence (AI). However, the methods of collaboration used to develop open LLMs both before and after their public release have not yet been comprehensively studied, limiting our understanding of how open LLM projects are initiated, organized, and governed as well as what opportunities there are to foster this ecosystem even further. We address this gap through an …

Memo from Disney execs: YouTube pulled Disney channels before the expiration time of the carriage deal with "no advance notice to their subscribers, or to us" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-senior-…

Disney Senior Execs on YouTube TV Blackout: Google Is 'Not Interested in Achieving a Fair Deal With Us'
Disney's top brass is telling the troops that they're going to continue to fight for a "fair deal" with Google's YouTube TV, after the internet service pulled ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks Thursday night.

Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Mursal Dawodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20406

Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
For nearly two decades after 2001, Afghanistan's higher education sector expanded rapidly, with Kabul University serving as a central site of women's academic participation. Drawing on administrative records of student populations from 2016-2019 (Islamic calendar 1395-1398), this study examines gender distributions across shifts, faculties, and departments, with particular attention to STEM versus non-STEM fields. At Kabul University, the morning shift refers to the main daytime cohort (includi…

I'm dispositionally sceptical of falling sky prophesies and what Mr Schneier calls "movie plot threats".
But.
I can't deny I'm a bit nervous that all this noisy dancing up to the edge of disaster and back might be a deliberate scheme, intended to get European militaries locked up on the Eastern front from Finland to Romania, before China finally have a crack at Taiwan.
"Estonia seeks Nato consultation after Russian jets violate airspace"

Nato intercepts Russian warplanes violating Estonian airspace
Estonia says three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets remained in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes.

Days after Donald Trump fell asleep during a televised Cabinet meeting,
the president on Thursday again dozed off during a ceremony to mark the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Trump was visibly closing his eyes as Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke from the podium at the ceremony inside the U.S. Institute of Peace building,
his hands clasped and his head drooping while he sat at a table to the left.
Trump continue…

Trump, 79, Falls Asleep Again During Peace Agreement Signing
Donald Trump was bragging about this Rwanda-DRC peace agreement minutes before he began to doze off.

#DJT Pardon of #DC terror suspect called ‘Orwellian’: by current and former prosecutors who are alarmed by #DOJ scrubbing all mentions of #Drumpf and

‘Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.

Transitioning to off-grid living can save you money and reduce reliance on major utility companies. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Off-grid homeowner shares before-and-after photos of family's new setup: 'That's awesome'
This homeowner is making the most out of her off-grid living, despite the hurdles trying to slow her down.

Taming Serverless Cold Starts Through OS Co-Design
Ben Holmes, Baltasar Dinis, Lana Honcharuk, Joshua Fried, Adam Belay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14292 https://

Taming Serverless Cold Starts Through OS Co-Design
Serverless computing promises fine-grained elasticity and operational simplicity, fueling widespread interest from both industry and academia. Yet this promise is undercut by the cold setart problem, where invoking a function after a period of inactivity triggers costly initialization before any work can begin. Even with today's high-speed storage, the prevailing view is that achieving sub-millisecond cold starts requires keeping state resident in memory. This paper challenges that assumption…

Dichotomy in Long-Lived Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events AT 2020zso and AT 2021sdu: Multi-Component Outflows vs. Host Contamination
Collin T. Christy, Kate D. Alexander, Tanmoy Laskar, Noah Franz, Adelle J. Goodwin, Jeniveve Pearson, Edo Berger, Yvette Cendes, Ryan Chornock, Deanne Coppejans, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Raffaella Margutti, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Melanie Krips, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, David J. Sand, Richard Saxton, Manisha Shrestha, Sjoert van Velzen

Dichotomy in Long-Lived Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events AT 2020zso and AT 2021sdu: Multi-Component Outflows vs. Host Contamination
We present a detailed radio study of the tidal disruption events (TDEs) AT 2020zso and AT 2021sdu. Both exhibit transient radio emission beginning shortly after optical discovery and persisting for several years. For AT 2020zso, we identify two distinct radio flares. The first arises soon after the optical peak, reaching a maximum $\sim1$ year post-discovery before fading. The second flare appears $\sim800$ days after discovery and results in the brief presence of two distinct components in the…

Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations
Diletta Goglia, Davide Vega, Alessio Gandelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21092 https:…

Influence of the majority group on individual judgments in online spontaneous conversations
This study investigates how the majority group influences individual judgment formation and expression in anonymous, spontaneous online conversations. Drawing on theories of social conformity and anti-conformity, we analyze everyday dilemmas discussed on social media. First, using digital traces to operationalize judgments, we measure the conversations' disagreement and apply Bayesian regression to capture shifts of judgments formation before and after the group's exposure. Then we analyze chan…

Economist Justin Wolfers: “Demolishing the East Wing of the WH before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump’s approach to economic policy.
The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.”

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 260. 11/30/25
… Ukraine’s peace negotiators met with the US delegation today, which was led by Sec of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. After multiple recent revelations about Witkoff being owned by Putin, he looked pretty uncomfortable facing the Ukrainians he has worked so hard to sell out.

On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …

Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

AEFS: Adaptive Early Feature Selection for Deep Recommender Systems
Fan Hu, Gaofeng Lu, Jun Chen, Chaonan Guo, Yuekui Yang, Xirong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12076 https://…

AEFS: Adaptive Early Feature Selection for Deep Recommender Systems
Feature selection has emerged as a crucial technique in refining recommender systems. Recent advancements leveraging Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has drawn significant attention, particularly in two main categories: early feature selection and late feature selection, differentiated by whether the selection occurs before or after the embedding layer. The early feature selection selects a fixed subset of features and retrains the model, while the late feature selection, known as adaptive f…

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The decision laid bare some of the country’s divisions, with many uncorking Champagne outside the far-right leader’s prison to celebrate as his supporters prepared a religious act in his favor.
In a dramatic and unexpected twist in the final stage of a long and divisive criminal trial, feder…

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Bolsonaro, who has been under house arrest, was taken to the federal police headquarters in Brasilia on Saturday after his ankle monitor was reportedly violated. Justice Alexandre de Moraes cited a video by Bolsonaro's son urging supporters to protest, which he said showed intent to create chaos. Bolsonar…

#Drumpf #Health appointee ousted after more controversy over forged #PhD on resume and other conflicts that cause falling out of favor with #RFKjrRegime

Trump health official ousted after allegedly giving himself a fake title
Steven Hatfill had a notable history before his abrupt ouster.

Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe
— before Donald Trump’s Department of Justice shut down the probe.
“The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official,”
the report said.
“But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January."

Bombshell Report Claims Trump DOJ Shut Down Probe Into Alleged $50K Tom Homan Bribe
A bombshell new report claims Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe before the Trump DOJ shut it down.

Santa Barbara is gearing up to host its 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18, 2025.
Free tours aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin and Tall Ship Mystic Whaler are offered,
along with harbor rides on Azure Seas and Kelpie.
This year, Santa Barbara Sailing Center will introduce sailing lessons for attendees.
To promote eco-friendly travel, MOVE Santa Barbara County offers a free bike valet for festivalgoers.
Visit before or after you get a sk…

Santa Barbara to Host 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18 - edhat
The day-long event at the Santa Barbara Harbor on October 18 is a free community tradition runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mike Johnson is also Speaker of the House that never meets
https://mastodon.social/@scottlayne/114466579220194461

Zer0 Billionaires (@scottlayne@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Mike Johnson was dean of a law school that never opened—named after Judge Paul Pressler, a Southern Baptist leader later accused by multiple men (including a child) of sexual abuse. The school had no students and shut down before launch. #notadragqueen

#Nashville based Alt-country #singer-#songwriter Todd Snider dead 2 weeks after being abandoned by band, and roughed up before a show in #SaltLakeCity

Alt-country singer-songwriter Todd Snider dies 2 weeks after Salt Lake arrest
Todd Snider, a beloved figure in American roots music, died Friday at age 59, just weeks after he was arrested in Utah and canceled his tour.