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Just finished "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas. In an unusual twist of fate, I had read "Concrete Rose" earlier, which gave me a rich backstory to relate things to. "The Hate U Give" is really good, but I found the resolution of King's arc slightly disappointing, even though the ending was strong. It's definitely not my place to judge Thomas' perspective here, but I do think that the book's broad popularity including among more liberal audiences probably stems at least in part from the way it allows a "the cops have issues but are ultimately-necessary/sometimes-positive" reading that undermines the strength of the core message.
In the end I like Concrete Rose better, but they're both great and I'll be putting Thomas' other books on my to-read list.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The only April Fools prank I endorse:

Technically the Senate Dems *DID* concede the original demands to claw back ICE/CBP/HSI funds and to ban some of the Fash tactics used in MPLS and Chicago as conditions for any DHS funding.
But those were always sacrificial asks. They existed to be conceded. @…

David Nir (@davidnir.com)
Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Happy Birthday, Angus Young!
I listen to Live At River Plate almost every day. This album and his performance all across the board gives me life!
When I’m 71 I want to be able to jump and run around as much as he still does!

I will once again repeat what I think is a nationally winning campaign for a US opposition party (should any care to exist), now with Berlatsky’s improved phrasing:
❝If elected, I will fight like hell to:
- destroy Donald Trump, everything he has done, and everything he stands for,
- tax the living shit out of billionaires, and
- use that money to repair the damage they’ve done to the US.❞
Not saying that’s everything that needs to happen, or an entire political philosophy, or the solution to everything. Only saying that I think that — simply that — would win elections. Try it and see. You cowards. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htdsafwakqmzvuk2oivijzn6/post/3midafsxk3k2p

Stolen to add ALT text. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/post/3mfvzyumlbd22

Yes, it's from the bad place, but Maçães is one of the only international observers with an intact moral compass in 2026.
Well worth a follow. @… https://bird.m…

Bruno Maçães on Twitter
I explain here why no liberal and no conservative can stay silent on Gaza

> "The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close."
I guess "geographically close" is relative, but no-one ever talks about London in the context of it being geographically close to Libya.

Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling
The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people

Sometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[5/6]:
- Watermarking Degrades Alignment in Language Models: Analysis and Mitigation
Apurv Verma, NhatHai Phan, Shubhendu Trivedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04462 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114635190037336859
- Sensory-Motor Control with Large Language Models via Iterative Policy Refinement
J\^onata Tyska Carvalho, Stefano Nolfi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04867 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/114635187854195641
- ICE-ID: A Novel Historical Census Dataset for Longitudinal Identity Resolution
de Carvalho, Popov, Kaatee, Correia, Th\'orisson, Li, Bj\"ornsson, Sigur{\dh}arson, Dibangoye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13792 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/114703312162525342
- Feedback-driven recurrent quantum neural network universality
Lukas Gonon, Rodrigo Mart\'inez-Pe\~na, Juan-Pablo Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16332 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114732532383196043
- Programming by Backprop: An Instruction is Worth 100 Examples When Finetuning LLMs
Cook, Sapora, Ahmadian, Khan, Rocktaschel, Foerster, Ruis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18777 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/114738213040759661
- Stochastic Quantum Spiking Neural Networks with Quantum Memory and Local Learning
Jiechen Chen, Bipin Rajendran, Osvaldo Simeone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21324 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/114754367612728319
- Enjoying Non-linearity in Multinomial Logistic Bandits: A Minimax-Optimal Algorithm
Pierre Boudart (SIERRA), Pierre Gaillard (Thoth), Alessandro Rudi (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05306 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114822374525501660
- Characterizing State Space Model and Hybrid Language Model Performance with Long Context
Saptarshi Mitra, Rachid Karami, Haocheng Xu, Sitao Huang, Hyoukjun Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12442 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_bot/114867589638074984
- Is Exchangeability better than I.I.D to handle Data Distribution Shifts while Pooling Data for Da...
Ayush Roy, Samin Enam, Jun Xia, Won Hwa Kim, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114935399825741861
- TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation
Nicole Cho, Kirsty Fielding, William Watson, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13404 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115060386723032051
- Morphology-Aware Peptide Discovery via Masked Conditional Generative Modeling
Nuno Costa, Julija Zavadlav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02060 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/115139546511384706
- PCPO: Proportionate Credit Policy Optimization for Aligning Image Generation Models
Jeongjae Lee, Jong Chul Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25774 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115298580419859537
- Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned I...
Didrik Bergstr\"om, Deniz G\"und\"uz, Onur G\"unl\"u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06868 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/115343320768797486
- MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile...
Chengshu Li, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18316 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115416889485910123
- A Spectral Framework for Graph Neural Operators: Convergence Guarantees and Tradeoffs
Roxanne Holden, Luana Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20954 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115445273121677005
- Breaking Agent Backbones: Evaluating the Security of Backbone LLMs in AI Agents
Bazinska, Mathys, Casucci, Rojas-Carulla, Davies, Souly, Pfister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22620 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115451397563132982
- Uncertainty Calibration of Multi-Label Bird Sound Classifiers
Raphael Schwinger, Ben McEwen, Vincent S. Kather, Ren\'e Heinrich, Lukas Rauch, Sven Tomforde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08261 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115535982708483824
- Two-dimensional RMSD projections for reaction path visualization and validation
Rohit Goswami (Institute IMX and Lab-COSMO, \'Ecole polytechnique f\'ed\'erale de Lausanne)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07329 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicschemph_bot/115688910885717951
- Distribution-informed Online Conformal Prediction
Dongjian Hu, Junxi Wu, Shu-Tao Xia, Changliang Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07770 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115689281155541568
- Coupling Experts and Routers in Mixture-of-Experts via an Auxiliary Loss
Ang Lv, Jin Ma, Yiyuan Ma, Siyuan Qiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23447 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115808311310246601
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