@cdarwin@c.imSix of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Today’s deadline for response
Within a day of the call,
University of Virginia and Dartmouth College rejected the compact,
joining ranks with MIT,
Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Southern California.
The University of Texas at Austin was invited to sign on and the chair of the University o…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageSynthetic Data Generation for Screen Time and App Usage
Gustavo Kruger, Nikhil Sachdeva, Michael Sobolev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13892 https://arxiv.org…
@hex@kolektiva.socialPeople keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
#USPol
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Taxonomy of Response Strategies to Toxic Online Content: Evaluating the Evidence
Lisa Schirch, Kristina Radivojevic, Cathy Buerger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09921 https://
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialHow popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships
@gwire@mastodon.socialJournalists still haven't given up their decade long habit of just searching Twitter for reactions, so naturally a story about the Church of England is cantered around the opinions of two people who, I'm pretty sure, are not members.
https://www.
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageToward Low-Latency End-to-End Voice Agents for Telecommunications Using Streaming ASR, Quantized LLMs, and Real-Time TTS
Vignesh Ethiraj, Ashwath David, Sidhanth Menon, Divya Vijay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04721
@arXiv_mathDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe role of coupling and timescales for interacting tipping elements
Paul D. L. Ritchie, Robbin Bastiaansen, Anna S. von der Heydt, Peter Ashwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03996
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageStructured AI Decision-Making in Disaster Management
Julian Gerald Dcruz, Argyrios Zolotas, Niall Ross Greenwood, Miguel Arana-Catania
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01576 https://
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., may have helped Republican congressman
Cory Lee Mills
get off scot-free after he allegedly assaulted a woman.
In February, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department arrived at Mills’s luxury penthouse on the Wharf in response to a call about a domestic disturbance.
There they found Mills’s “significant other” of a year, 27, “physically shaking and scared,” according to a police report.
Mills and his wife, Rana Al Saadi,…
@arXiv_csET_bot@mastoxiv.pageTruth Without Comprehension: A BlueSky Agenda for Steering the Fourth Mathematical Crisis
Runlong Yu, Xiaowei Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17290 https://…
