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Colombia’s Constitutional Court Not Only Upholds Bullfighting Ban, But Bans More Animal Spectacles https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/09/12/colombias-constitutional-court-not-only-uphold…

Colombia’s Constitutional Court Not Only Upholds Bullfighting Ban, But Bans More Animal Spectacles
On the 4th September 2025, Colombia’s Constitutional Court issued a final ruling banning bullfighting nationwide and ordering the total restriction of other violent practices against animals used in…

A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD shown to one eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-ray-ban-display-glasses-design-hud-wristband…

'Meta Ray-Ban Display' Glasses Design & HUD Clips Leak Ahead Of Connect
BREAKING: Meta's HUD glasses with the sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked video which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

The now-removed video from Meta also showed the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera, highlighting their use in skiing and running (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/oakley-meta-sphaera-design-leaks-ahead-of-connect-too/

Oakley Meta Sphaera Design Leaks Ahead Of Connect Too
As well as the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the leaked video also reveals the design of the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera.

Multi-Armed Bandits with Minimum Aggregated Revenue Constraints
Ahmed Ben Yahmed, Hafedh El Ferchichi, Marc Abeille, Vianney Perchet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12523 https://

Multi-Armed Bandits with Minimum Aggregated Revenue Constraints
We examine a multi-armed bandit problem with contextual information, where the objective is to ensure that each arm receives a minimum aggregated reward across contexts while simultaneously maximizing the total cumulative reward. This framework captures a broad class of real-world applications where fair revenue allocation is critical and contextual variation is inherent. The cross-context aggregation of minimum reward constraints, while enabling better performance and easier feasibility, intro…

A Constrained Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization Method
Jingyi Wang, Nai-Yuan Chiang, Tucker Hartland, J. Luc Peterson, Jerome Solberg, Cosmin G. Petra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10984

A Constrained Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization Method
Recently, multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (MFBO) has been successfully applied to many engineering design optimization problems, where the cost of high-fidelity simulations and experiments can be prohibitive. However, challenges remain for constrained optimization problems using the MFBO framework, particularly in efficiently identifying the feasible region defined by the constraints. In this paper, we propose a constrained multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (CMFBO) method with novel acq…

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

SWE-Effi: Re-Evaluating Software AI Agent System Effectiveness Under Resource Constraints
Zhiyu Fan, Kirill Vasilevski, Dayi Lin, Boyuan Chen, Yihao Chen, Zhiqing Zhong, Jie M. Zhang, Pinjia He, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09853

SWE-Effi: Re-Evaluating Software AI Agent System Effectiveness Under Resource Constraints
The advancement of large language models (LLMs) and code agents has demonstrated significant potential to assist software engineering (SWE) tasks, such as autonomous issue resolution and feature addition. Existing AI for software engineering leaderboards (e.g., SWE-bench) focus solely on solution accuracy, ignoring the crucial factor of effectiveness in a resource-constrained world. This is a universal problem that also exists beyond software engineering tasks: any AI system should be more than…

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/meta-earnings-meta-turns-the-dial-soci…

Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta
Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don’t think it was a coincidence.