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@kornel@mastodon.social
2025-09-01 10:37:47

Deep dependency on a technology lack of agency disagreement with leadership creates anger.
Great observation by @…
This explains so well why after being a macOS developer for 20 years, I can't stand Apple right now.

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.

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-01 09:57:52

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
arxiv.org/abs/2508.21770

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-02 12:28:47

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.

@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-31 19:01:19

As far as we know, it being Labour Day, Victory Cafe will be open tomorrow, as they usually are on holiday Mondays. And it’ll be the first Monday of the month, which means it’s a Stickers Club edition! 6 PM, 440 Bloor St. W. Details at the Luma link! #Toronto #tech

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-09-29 08:00:55

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.

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-29 09:34:18

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
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21634

@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-02 09:39:20

False Discovery Rate Control via Bayesian Mirror Statistic
Marco Molinari, Magne Thoresen
arxiv.org/abs/2510.00875 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00875…

@arXiv_mathGT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-01 08:10:17

Non-fibered strongly quasipositive links and tightness
Isacco Nonino, Miguel Orbegozo Rodriguez
arxiv.org/abs/2509.26183 arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2025-09-24 12:34:09

Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/op

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 16:05:55

PUBLICATION> open access, Damien Keown "Well-Being in Theravada Buddhism" 3rd edition
ift.tt/8qsSlZB
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-02 15:05:55

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Matt Berry:
🎵 Are You Being Served?
#MattBerry
open.spotify.com/track/4XjBQys

@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io
2025-10-28 23:44:58

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
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-28 16:13:36

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:
🎵 Laid
#ThePainsofBeingPureatHeart
open.spotify.com/track/0JBhtS8

@emilis@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-29 12:40:15

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:
ipthreat.net/ip/185.199.111.133
Malware is actually being distributed via GitHub, but the majorit…

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-10-27 19:10:52

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

@david@boles.xyz
2025-09-20 15:04:11

Here's my latest Prairie Voice article about being traced and tracked online and how to stop it:
open.substack.com/pub/boles/p/

How to avoid being tracked online.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-14 17:20:50

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)
cnbc.com/2025/10/14/open-ai-ex

@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io
2025-09-15 13:13:50

"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."
carpentries.org/blog/2025/09/c
Great to see this forward looking collaborative work being done by @… @… @… @… and OLS

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-10-28 06:05:59

PUBLICATION> open access, Damien Keown "Well-Being in Theravada Buddhism" 3rd edition
ift.tt/azqgQCN
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-27 10:11:03

Private Quantum Database
Giancarlo Gatti, Rihan Hai
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19055 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19055

@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-28 09:13:11

Word Chain Generators for Prefix Normal Words
Duncan Adamson, Moritz Dudey, Pamela Fleischmann, Annika Huch
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19619 arxiv.…

@prachisrivas@masto.ai
2025-10-10 06:39:41

Wow. I didn't know the history of R, actually, it's co-creator, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Ross Ihaka, University of Auckland, of Māori descent.

A true global public good used by millions.
'...he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.'

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-17 13:18:07

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Being boring
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
martinhossbach.bandcamp.com/tr
open.spotify.com/track/25NxW0i

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-21 20:35:40

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.

@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-19 11:08:40

Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards
Ting Yang, Li Chen, Huimin Wang
arxiv.org/abs/2508.12935

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-25 09:53:20

Applications and Challenges of Fairness APIs in Machine Learning Software
Ajoy Das, Gias Uddin, Shaiful Chowdhury, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Hadi Hemmati
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16377

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-10-19 20:23:38

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…

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2025-09-24 12:34:09

Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/op

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-12 08:52:29

AGILOped: Agile Open-Source Humanoid Robot for Research
Grzegorz Ficht, Luis Denninger, Sven Behnke
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09364 arxiv.org/pdf/…

@laxsill@social.spejset.org
2025-08-20 08:20:22

en av världens bästa spelstudios tar ställning mot folkmordet! gamespot.com/articles/arkane-d

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-09-07 14:36:33

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 */

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-08-22 19:32:15

Jerry Jones accused of 'brazenly violating' CBA in Cowboys-Micah Parsons contract saga si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-10-04 23:14:01

Rare view of my desk during video editing.
With appropriate beverage vessels.

Photo of my desk. A PDF of a chip datasheet is open on a 24" monitor to the left while kdenlive is open on a 43" display to the right, editing a video of me working inside a fume hood.

Mugs with Thorlabs and Teledyne LeCroy logos sit to the left of the keyboard next to a headaet and a copy of "S-Parameters for Signal Integrity" and a Derpy Hooves pony toy.

Hanging up on the wall above the computer screens are a large ensemble of conference badges and framed copies of my BS and Ph.D degrees.
Thorlabs mug being picked up to show a custom slate coaster laser engraved to look like an Artix-7 FPGA
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-17 03:06:08

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
bloococoon:
🎵 You Being You
#bloococoon
bloococoon.bandcamp.com/album/
open.spotify.com/track/6nDz5vT

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-06 09:08:59

VR as a "Drop-In" Well-being Tool for Knowledge Workers
Sophia Ppali, Haris Psallidopoulos, Marios Constantinides, Fotis Liarokapis
arxiv.org/abs/2510.02836

@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-19 21:31:37

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…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-08-04 15:49:00

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] (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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@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-09-16 01:12:33

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.

@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-18 02:28:59

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

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-08 07:57:32

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
arxiv.org/abs/2508.04921

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-08-03 02:42:25

«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 🫠
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/pro

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-…

@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-16 12:02:25

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???!!

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-14 18:44:37

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Being Special
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
pamparecords.bandcamp.com/albu
open.spotify.com/track/5XAoSMs

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-30 08:57:48

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Beta Band:
🎵 Human Being
#TheBetaBand
open.spotify.com/track/54dx2aV

@chrislowles@mastodon.social
2025-10-20 06:32:36

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.

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-08-05 07:33:14

"The #cloud isn’t your friend. It’s a business. And when their business needs conflict with your data’s existence, guess which one wins?"
"I wasn’t alone in being targeted by AWS—especially #MENA. Hundreds of Reddit threads, websites, forums, all telling similar stories."
"

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-10-02 19:43:19

"""
[…] 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)

@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-25 08:42:20

SpinAdaptedSecondQuantization.jl 1.0 -- A Simple and Pedagogical Approach to Symbolic Quantum Chemistry
Marcus T. Lexander, Tor S. Haugland, Federico Rossi, Henrik Koch
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16342

@cyclocracy@norden.social
2025-10-13 07:03:39

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

@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-04 09:48:31

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…

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-08-07 16:08:16

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.)

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-09-06 13:31:05

Annnd it's gone.
#trump
From: @…

@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social
2025-08-22 02:20:21

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

@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-21 09:05:09

Asymptotic structure. IV. A counterexample to the weak coarse Menger conjecture
Tung Nguyen, Alex Scott, Paul Seymour
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14332

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 10:19:41

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…

‪@Richard@worklifepsych.social‬
2025-08-12 10:09:42

@… Thanks! All fans on the go, all windows open. Water bottle being refilled regularly!

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-12 02:50:58

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)
arstechnica.com/security/2025/

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
theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-18 07:37:40

VeriRel: Verification Feedback to Enhance Document Retrieval for Scientific Fact Checking
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11122

@arXiv_csCE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-16 09:00:47

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
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11762

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-29 05:11:46

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Phoenix:
🎵 Everything Is Everything
#Phoenix
aiphoenix.bandcamp.com/album/h
open.spotify.com/track/3pzJXZ1

@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-12 11:08:33

QVNTVS, Open-Source Quantum Well Simulator
Barbaros \c{S}air
arxiv.org/abs/2508.07792 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07792

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-11 09:02:33

MIoT-Driven Comparison of Open Blockchain Platforms
Abdou-Essamad Jabri (UPJV, MIS), Mostafa Azizi (UPJV, MIS), Cyril Drocourt (UPJV, MIS), Gil Utard (MIS, UPJV)
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…

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-09 08:13:42

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

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-05 10:08:01

AffectGPT-R1: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Open-Vocabulary Emotion Recognition
Zheng Lian
arxiv.org/abs/2508.01318 arxiv.org/pdf/2…

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-19 11:03:30

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
arxiv.org/abs/2508.12245

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-07 18:47:52

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#NowPlaying #TheHumanLeague
laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-
open.spotify.com/track/6rlRrK9

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-08-05 00:30:05

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

Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English alt text:
Black and white photo of a café or bar counter. A variety of wine bottles are arranged on the top shelf. Beneath, two coffee grinders and a coffee machine sit on the marble countertop. A partially visible sign hangs behind the grinders. Two small signs with the word “INFINITE” are placed on the counter. In the bottom right corner, the time range “11:00 AM - 1:00 PM” is displayed.

中文替代文字:
这是一张黑白照片,展示一个咖啡馆或酒吧的柜台。顶层架子上整齐地排列着各种葡萄酒瓶。下方的大理石台面上放着两个咖啡研磨机和一台咖啡机。研磨…
Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English alt text:
Photograph of a brick building exterior with metal security grilles on the windows. A pair of shorts hangs from a hanger beneath a small awning, suggesting they’re being air-dried. On the upper right, a balcony with railings is partially visible. The overall setting appears residential.

中文替代文字:
这是一张砖墙建筑外部的照片,窗户上装有金属防护栏。一个小遮棚下挂着一条短裤,似乎正在晾干。右上角可以看到一个带护栏的阳台,整体环境呈现住宅区的氛围。
Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English alt text:
Nighttime street scene in front of a brightly lit Chinese restaurant. Neon signs and a large storefront banner in Chinese indicate the restaurant’s name and that it’s open until 2:00 AM. Several patrons are seated at outdoor tables enjoying food, while others stand and talk near the entrance. A motorbike passes in the foreground with visible motion blur. The lively atmosphere contrasts with the dark surroundings.

中文替代文字:
夜晚街头,一家灯光明亮的中式餐厅门前。霓虹灯和中文横幅展示餐厅名称,…
Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English alt text:
Outdoor dining scene under tree shade, with people sitting at checkered-tablecloth tables, enjoying food and conversation. Scooters are parked nearby, enhancing the casual urban vibe. The atmosphere feels communal and relaxed, suggesting a friendly social gathering, possibly in a public square or patio.

中文替代文字:
树荫下的户外用餐场景,人们围坐在铺有格子桌布的餐桌旁,享受美食与交流。周围停放着几辆踏板车,营造出轻松的城市氛围。整体感觉亲切自在,似乎是在广场或露台上的友好聚会。
@arXiv_mathAG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-05 08:42:11

A primer on measures of irrationality
Nathan Chen, Olivier Martin
arxiv.org/abs/2509.03783 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03783

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-09 12:05:36

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)
theverge.com/news/797436/dia-b

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-18 09:14:20

Scene Graph-Guided Proactive Replanning for Failure-Resilient Embodied Agent
Che Rin Yu, Daewon Chae, Dabin Seo, Sangwon Lee, Hyeongwoo Im, Jinkyu Kim
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11286

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-09-09 18:04:17

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

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-16 14:12:36

KaVontae Turpin gets positive injury update for Cowboys' Week 3 showdown vs Bears si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/kavont

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-11 10:17:39

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
arxiv.org/abs/2508.06492

@arXiv_csDL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-05 07:44:41

Authorship-contribution normalized Sh-index and citations are better research output indicators
Vishvesh Karthik, Indupalli Sishir Anand, Utkarsha Mahanta, Gaurav Sharma
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04124

@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-03 13:06:33

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
arxiv.org/abs/2509.01988

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-03 00:29:22

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:
🎵 Laid
#ThePainsofBeingPureatHeart
open.spotify.com/track/0JBhtS8

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-16 11:18:46

Non-Hermitian Physics in Quantum Channels: Pseudo-Hermiticity, Spectrum Measurement and Application to Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation
Yuan-De Jin, Wen-Long Ma
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11074

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-24 09:56:00

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Being Boring
#PetShopBoys
mablesongs.bandcamp.com/track/
open.spotify.com/track/25NxW0i

@arXiv_condmatsuprcon_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-04 08:40:11

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
arxiv.org/abs/2509.03247

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 11:05:19

Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Marta Emili Garcia Segura, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08255 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…

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-22 17:22:44

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#TheHumanLeague
laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-
open.spotify.com/track/6fbeOOv

@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-08 08:10:09

Hierarchical Equations of Motion Solved with the Multiconfigurational Ehrenfest Ansatz
Zhecun Shi, Huiqiang Zhou, Lei Huang, Rixin Xie, Linjun Wang
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04872

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-18 23:32:46

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Grounding
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#TheHumanLeague
laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-
open.spotify.com/track/6rlRrK9

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-22 16:59:47

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Wet Leg:
🎵 Being In Love
#WetLeg
wetleg.bandcamp.com/track/bein
open.spotify.com/track/4VBE0mw
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-19 02:19:37

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Audioasis
Well Being:
🎵 Pleasure Garden (Adapt 2 The Culture Mix)
#WellBeing
wellbeing.bandcamp.com/album/p
open.spotify.com/track/1wQs4KC

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-04 04:21:59

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Being Boring
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-18 07:35:57

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
DEVO:
🎵 Through Being Cool
#DEVO
comatonse.bandcamp.com/track/t
open.spotify.com/track/5kfLpp8

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-04 04:11:01

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Being Special
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
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@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-17 03:50:10

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Basement Jaxx:
🎵 Being With U
#BasementJaxx
basementjaxx.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/37Lprhe

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-23 05:19:33

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
The Beta Band:
🎵 Human Being
#TheBetaBand
open.spotify.com/track/54dx2aV

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-16 06:19:53

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 So Good At Being In Trouble
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
whatsupwiththekids.bandcamp.co
open.spotify.com/track/3DXHaJz

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-15 08:03:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
DEVO:
🎵 Through Being Cool
#DEVO
comatonse.bandcamp.com/track/t
open.spotify.com/track/5kfLpp8