2025-09-01 10:37:47
You’ll still get your social security and Medicare.
Flights will keep going, but with unpaid and possibly limited staff.
Most parks will remain open, but will probably be under-maintained.
Smithsonian museums and the National zoo are open through at least 6 October.
Federal workers are the hardest hit, withmany being unpaid or furloughed.
Consumer protections, which have already been hit hard by cuts, are at risk of incapacity.
What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representation Learning from Atypical Videos
Qiyue Sun, Qiming Huang, Yang Yang, Hongjun Wang, Jianbo Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21770
Two things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.
The answer to "the AI systems that corporate overlords push everywhere are shit" is not "so we need open source AI".
These systems are shit cause they structurally are. They are just being shoved everywhere to reduce labor power. "Open source AI" (if that even existed) is not changing that.
MobiLLM: An Agentic AI Framework for Closed-Loop Threat Mitigation in 6G Open RANs
Prakhar Sharma, Haohuang Wen, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, Phillip Porras, Zhiqiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21634
False Discovery Rate Control via Bayesian Mirror Statistic
Marco Molinari, Magne Thoresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00875 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00875…
Non-fibered strongly quasipositive links and tightness
Isacco Nonino, Miguel Orbegozo Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26183 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…
Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/…
PUBLICATION> open access, Damien Keown "Well-Being in Theravada Buddhism" 3rd edition
https://ift.tt/8qsSlZB
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
via Input 4 RELCFP
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Matt Berry:
🎵 Are You Being Served?
#MattBerry
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XjBQysZA0R5TQYnKXcv0i
Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:
🎵 Laid
#ThePainsofBeingPureatHeart
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JBhtS8zMP6QZFdSCzRjUa
TIL why I can't access release files from open-source projects on GitHub anymore.
It seems that the IP for release-assets.githubusercontent.com got added to ipthreat.net list:
https://ipthreat.net/ip/185.199.111.133
Malware is actually being distributed via GitHub, but the majorit…
Learning about this flute was what put me on the path of considering how closely intertwined the creation of art is with our very humanity (and our closest evolutionary relatives like Neandertals). I have come to the conclusion that that the drive to create art is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and the drive to create also drives our technological advances.
#ArtsPedagogy
Here's my latest Prairie Voice article about being traced and tracked online and how to stop it:
https://open.substack.com/pub/boles/p/fighting-the-algorithm?r=17i29e&utm_campaign=post&utm_…
OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/open-ai-expert-council-safety-ftc.html
"This convening is not an isolated event. It’s the first step in scaling a movement that reimagines how values-driven open science organisations can grow together, share resources, and strengthen the ecosystem we collectively serve. By working together, we can ensure that the future of open science is not only innovative, but also equitable, sustainable, and resilient."
https://www.carpentries.org/blog/2025/09/convening-to-reclaim-and-sustain-open-science-communities/
Great to see this forward looking collaborative work being done by @… @… @… @… and OLS
PUBLICATION> open access, Damien Keown "Well-Being in Theravada Buddhism" 3rd edition
https://ift.tt/azqgQCN
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Private Quantum Database
Giancarlo Gatti, Rihan Hai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19055 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19055…
Word Chain Generators for Prefix Normal Words
Duncan Adamson, Moritz Dudey, Pamela Fleischmann, Annika Huch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19619 https://arxiv.…
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Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Being boring
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
https://martinhossbach.bandcamp.com/track/being-boring
https://open.spotify.com/track/25NxW0iRRFOrIfxu4nrYfE
Oof, fuck microsoft.
But also, there's no reason to use permissive licenses any more. "Open source" has taken over the world. We no longer have to work with billion-dollar companies in order to get our stuff used. Now we need to protect ourselves from being taken advantage of by them.
https://
Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards
Ting Yang, Li Chen, Huimin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12935
Applications and Challenges of Fairness APIs in Machine Learning Software
Ajoy Das, Gias Uddin, Shaiful Chowdhury, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Hadi Hemmati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16377
Last week Lord Murray of Blidworth made a good point about the Open Justice principle being applied to immigration/asylum decisions, especially since people read reports that suggest things like "has a cat" and "doesn't like foreign chicken nuggets" are cited as definitive reasons, without the press/public being able to interrogate those claims.
(A point made *minutes* after the chicken nuggets story was repeated in the debate.)
Over 100 liberal philanthropies,
including those that are being targeted by the Trump administration as part of an expected crackdown after the killing of Charlie Kirk,
are banding together to try and stave off attacks on the nonprofit sector.
The institutions, including the Ford Foundation and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations,
on Wednesday pushed out an open letter that forcefully defended the philanthropy sector,
even as its list of signers doubled as a…
Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/…
AGILOped: Agile Open-Source Humanoid Robot for Research
Grzegorz Ficht, Luis Denninger, Sven Behnke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09364 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
en av världens bästa spelstudios tar ställning mot folkmordet! https://www.gamespot.com/articles/arkane-devs-call-for-microsoft-to-stop-working-with-israel/1100-6533901/
Just fwiw the best way to exclude your open source code from being ingested for "AI" training is to load it up to the motherfucking brim with fucking 4-letter word comments #fuck /* fuck */
Jerry Jones accused of 'brazenly violating' CBA in Cowboys-Micah Parsons contract saga https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-brazenly-violating-cba-dallas-cowboys-micah-parsons-contract-saga
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
bloococoon:
🎵 You Being You
#bloococoon
https://bloococoon.bandcamp.com/album/you-being-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/6nDz5vT24fvc86YUSbLqWB
VR as a "Drop-In" Well-being Tool for Knowledge Workers
Sophia Ppali, Haris Psallidopoulos, Marios Constantinides, Fotis Liarokapis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02836 ht…
Bus Flipper Simulator (PC)
It's House Flipper, but on the open road!
As an RV tiny home "enjoyer" (yes the quotes mean I'm being sarcastic as f), Bus Flipper caught my attention during the most recent Steam Nextfest. I checked out the demo, impressed enough to wishlist it. I bought it on launch (as a bundle with another car based sim I'm reviewing next) and while it's the same game as the demo, I'm a bit disappointed with the full game, but I'm n…
Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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I am trying out @…, but there are a couple of things that would improve the QoL of the product.
Keyboard shortcuts to open the composer or search box.
And then being able to search for accounts while typing.
The Sith Lord's ultimate power is being able to run Star Wars: The Old Republic flawlessly on a penguin powered pc. Come see the dark side of open source tonight! #SWTOR #Streaming #PenguinPC
Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Zixuan Feng, Reed Milewicz, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tyler Menezes, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Steinmacher, Anita Sarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04921
«In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure!»
oh fuckin' hell, makes you wonder how their non-public stuff is being made 🫠
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/
US Open broadcasters have been asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to Donald Trumpat Sunday’s men’s final.
The president is expected to attend the match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in New York, with security at Flushing Meadows being heightened in preparation.
Trump used to be a regular visitor to the US Open but has not been to the tournament since 2015, when he was booed by spectators.
An email sent to broadcasters by organisers reveals that the 79-…
My wife and son started talking about what they think are differences of something being a game, a sport or a competition. They just said their opinions and started doing something else.
I, on the other hand, immediately started to build up a taxonomy and rules for their classification and they left me hanging with an uncomplete system! HOW CAN THEY STOP WITH SO MANY OPEN ENDS???!!
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Being Special
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://pamparecords.bandcamp.com/album/being-special-pampa029
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XAoSMs4PY590w0QOhKAnC
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Beta Band:
🎵 Human Being
#TheBetaBand
https://open.spotify.com/track/54dx2aVq7izoiA1IDIxt4T
Took an RSA test today and the handbooks weren't there, teacher filled the time with conversations about ChatGPT "being open-source" and that the under-16s ban is gonna be fine, I think I deserve the license after going through 6 and a half hours of that.
"""
[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
SpinAdaptedSecondQuantization.jl 1.0 -- A Simple and Pedagogical Approach to Symbolic Quantum Chemistry
Marcus T. Lexander, Tor S. Haugland, Federico Rossi, Henrik Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16342
Car brains everywhere: "In June 1935 he was knocked off his bicycle on an open stretch of road south of London, ... "
Es war ein Autofahrer und kein himmlischer Hammerschlag aus dem Nichts!
#motornormativity #guardian
Crowning the Queen: Membership, Age, Rotation, and Activity for the Open Cluster Coma Berenices
M. A. Ag\"ueros (Columbia University, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux), J. L. Curtis (Columbia University), A. N\'u\~nez (Columbia University), C. Burhenne (Rutgers), P. Rothstein (Columbia University), B. J. Shaham (Columbia University), K. Singh (Columbia University), P. Bergeron (Universit\'e de Montr\'eal), M. Kilic (University of Oklahoma), K. R. Covey (West…
I wonder how long before people adopt delay tactics? For instance , just suppose that every time a box truck, like the one in the article below, enters a Home Depot someone runs up and slides a cable tie or bit of wire through the door latches to prevent the door from being opened from the inside? (The driver could still get out, and remove the cable tie or wire and open the door - but that would let people see the driver and would take maybe 30 to 90 seconds.)
Annnd it's gone.
#trump
From: @…
https://www.
Gamers are like mostly non-existent on the fediverse.
If they are all hanging out at Lemmy we won't see them in the fediverse...
They will be invisible and perhaps that's their goal?
Maybe they never believed in the fediverse in the first place and they like being "hidden".
At least when we talkin' open source / FLOSS gamers
#gaming
Asymptotic structure. IV. A counterexample to the weak coarse Menger conjecture
Tung Nguyen, Alex Scott, Paul Seymour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14332 https://
Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model
Lei Bai, Zhongrui Cai, Maosong Cao, Weihan Cao, Chiyu Chen, Haojiong Chen, Kai Chen, Pengcheng Chen, Ying Chen, Yongkang Chen, Yu Cheng, Yu Cheng, Pei Chu, Tao Chu, Erfei Cui, Ganqu Cui, Long Cui, Ziyun Cui, Nianchen Deng, Ning Ding, Nanqin Dong, Peijie Dong, Shihan Dou, Sinan Du, Haodong Duan, Caihua Fan, Ben Gao, Changjiang Gao, Jianfei Gao, Songyang Gao, Yang Gao, Zhangwei Gao, Jiaye Ge, Qiming Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Aijia Guo, Qi…
@… Thanks! All fans on the go, all windows open. Water bottle being refilled regularly!
ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/high-severity-w…
Once prided as the ‘people’s slam’, New York’s major tennis tournament now doubles as a lifestyle carnival
where attending is no longer just about watching, but about being seen watching
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep
VeriRel: Verification Feedback to Enhance Document Retrieval for Scientific Fact Checking
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11122 https://
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Phoenix:
🎵 Everything Is Everything
#Phoenix
https://aiphoenix.bandcamp.com/album/hey-now-being-here-is-everything
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pzJXZ1PW3l3B69PoTx5lC
QVNTVS, Open-Source Quantum Well Simulator
Barbaros \c{S}air
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07792
MIoT-Driven Comparison of Open Blockchain Platforms
Abdou-Essamad Jabri (UPJV, MIS), Mostafa Azizi (UPJV, MIS), Cyril Drocourt (UPJV, MIS), Gil Utard (MIS, UPJV)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08399
Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country
-- and with organizers seeking to keep any audience booing of him from being seen on the TV broadcast.
Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate
⭐️Let's make th…
Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
AffectGPT-R1: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Open-Vocabulary Emotion Recognition
Zheng Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01318 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
The Evolution of IBM's Quantum Information Software Kit (Qiskit): A Review of its Applications
Param Pathak, K Tarakeshwar, Syed Sufiyan Ali, Shalini Devendrababu, Adarsh Ganesan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12245
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The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#NowPlaying #TheHumanLeague
https://laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-boiled-the-human-league
https://open.spotify.com/track/6rlRrK9tCZnoVTAk4te7AT
City Snaps - Chengdu / Freeze Frame ⏳
城市抓拍 - 成都 /静帧 ⏳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford Pan 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
A primer on measures of irrationality
Nathan Chen, Olivier Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03783 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03783
The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is "now open to everyone on macOS" without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797436/dia-browser-available-mac
Scene Graph-Guided Proactive Replanning for Failure-Resilient Embodied Agent
Che Rin Yu, Daewon Chae, Dabin Seo, Sangwon Lee, Hyeongwoo Im, Jinkyu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11286
Just finished "Be That Way" by Hope Larson. An excellent semi-graphic-novel about highschool friendships & romances, written as a diary including many illustrations but also a lot of prose. Has a pretty open ending just like "Freshman Year" did, and it's interesting how they both hit a lot of the same themes, despite their differences. Despite being from a slightly younger age group, and having had a totally different highschool experience, a lot of the '90s elements resonated with me.
#AmReading #GraphicNovel
KaVontae Turpin gets positive injury update for Cowboys' Week 3 showdown vs Bears https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/kavontae-turpin-gets-positive-injury-update-dallas-cowboys-week-3-showdown-bears
Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
Yuwei Yang, Zeyu Zhang, Yunzhong Hou, Zhuowan Li, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Yuan-Sen Ting, Liang Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06492
Authorship-contribution normalized Sh-index and citations are better research output indicators
Vishvesh Karthik, Indupalli Sishir Anand, Utkarsha Mahanta, Gaurav Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04124
Need for PRIMA to understand the nature and ISM physical conditions of HST-dark galaxies
Carlotta Gruppioni, Lee Armus, Matthieu Bethermin, Laura Bisigello, Denis Burgarella, Francesco Calura, Ivan Delvecchio, Andrea Enia, Andreas Faisst, Francesca Pozzi, Giulia Rodighiero, Alberto Traina, Livia Vallini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01988
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:
🎵 Laid
#ThePainsofBeingPureatHeart
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JBhtS8zMP6QZFdSCzRjUa
Non-Hermitian Physics in Quantum Channels: Pseudo-Hermiticity, Spectrum Measurement and Application to Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation
Yuan-De Jin, Wen-Long Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11074
Inherent momentum-dependent gap structure of altermagnetic superconductors
Christian L. H. Rasmussen, Jannik Gondolf, Mats Barkman, Merc\`e Roig, Daniel F. Agterberg, Andreas Kreisel, Brian M. Andersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03247
Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Marta Emili Garcia Segura, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08255 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08255
Read every embarrassing thing about felon trump into the congressional record.
Make it a weekly night event on the floor for cspan and advertise it.
Make a bingo game out of it.
Read off the court transcripts trump and his ilk.
Enjoy yourselves while you do this.
Bullies hate being mocked.
If the GNP (Grand Nazi Party) wants to stop you, make them own the chamber 24/7.
Tell them you will stop making them own the space when they start to push bac…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#TheHumanLeague
https://laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-boiled-the-human-league
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fbeOOv9u5JQwZx4pyW4mY
Hierarchical Equations of Motion Solved with the Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest Ansatz
Zhecun Shi, Huiqiang Zhou, Lei Huang, Rixin Xie, Linjun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04872
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Grounding
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#TheHumanLeague
https://laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-boiled-the-human-league
https://open.spotify.com/track/6rlRrK9tCZnoVTAk4te7AT
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Wet Leg:
🎵 Being In Love
#WetLeg
https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/track/being-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VBE0mwU8Nmm8hiqfCe4Ve
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Audioasis
Well Being:
🎵 Pleasure Garden (Adapt 2 The Culture Mix)
#WellBeing
https://wellbeing.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-garden
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wQs4KCJvdzPFsG2v3NekD
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Being Boring
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
DEVO:
🎵 Through Being Cool
#DEVO
https://comatonse.bandcamp.com/track/through-being-cool
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kfLpp8PYsTRVImqoJ64KZ
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Being Special
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Basement Jaxx:
🎵 Being With U
#BasementJaxx
https://basementjaxx.bandcamp.com/track/being-with-u
https://open.spotify.com/track/37Lprhez3PNVF9NX5sKZv5
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
The Beta Band:
🎵 Human Being
#TheBetaBand
https://open.spotify.com/track/54dx2aVq7izoiA1IDIxt4T
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 So Good At Being In Trouble
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
https://whatsupwiththekids.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-mortal-orchestra-so-good-at-being-in-trouble
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DXHaJzqRCgv3rd5U9EoXU
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
DEVO:
🎵 Through Being Cool
#DEVO
https://comatonse.bandcamp.com/track/through-being-cool
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kfLpp8PYsTRVImqoJ64KZ