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🍸 Can You Develop Film In a Jägerbomb?
#alcohol

Can You Develop Film In a Jägerbomb?
You can develop your film inside a Jägerbomb, but maybe you shouldn't.

How authoritarians can cut the global internet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/how-authoritarians-can-cut-the.html

Can Flipper Zero really steal your car? (Spoiler: NO)
https://blog.flipper.net/can-flipper-zero-steal-your-car/

Can Flipper Zero really steal your car? (Spoiler: NO)
You may have seen news reports about the “secret” Flipper Zero firmware that allegedly hacks any car, as covered by The Verge, Gizmodo, 404 Media, and The Drive have all written about it.  Let’s dive in to see whether this claim holds up (major spoiler: it doesn’t). What

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale
RTd this thread,
which says Trump should act fast and
“Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate.
Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate.
Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.”

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/

Can Mac Jones revitalize his career with 49ers? One coach believes he's 'capable of being a starter'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-m…

Mailbag: Can sack production be replaced? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-sack-production-be-replaced

> fifties era Rocketship Republicanism … come back to earth to find the Overton window has moved the landing pad and it's gotta set down somewhere
— @… can turn a phrase, y'all
https://

“What is Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act? And How Can We Defend it?”
https://dredf.org/what-is-section-503-of-the-rehabilitation-act-and-how-can-we-defend-it/
“Comments Needed to Stop Republican Attack on Section 503”

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

Another donation made to The Good Law Project. Honestly, they have already made some great progress on defending my safety in relation to the Equality Act and EHRC, its money well spent.
Can you join me?
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Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations #health

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations
A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations.

You've got to respect the commitment to the bit.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-can-a-34-year-old-sonic-level-teach-us-about-videogame-light

What can a 34-year-old Sonic level teach us about videogame light?
RPS explores the social and phantasmagorical nature of light by way of Star Light Zone, the most restful and hypnotic level of the original Sonic the Hedgehog.

Close-in planet induces flares on its host star / Searching for planet-induced radio signal from the young close-in planet host star HIP 67522: #planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Clingy_planets_can_trigger_own_doom_suspect_Cheops_and_TESS

Just wrote an article about Presidential Incapacity, and you can read it (and while you're there, please subscribe to get articles and satire and other good stuff I write and make first).
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/presidential-incapacity/

Presidential Incapacity
We know already he can't do good things. Wag the Dog is a movie that was being made as Bill Clinton was doing the things he would later be impeached for. The impeachment timed out as taking place roughly when the movie came out. The movie depicts an American President

«This can be immensely empowering, and can improve public trust: it’s hard (and unwise) to give yourself over to a technology that won’t tell you how it works, particularly when its predefined settings allow only for meagre approaches to “user privacy”. As I ask my students, if you could develop an AI at your own home, and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety, wouldn’t you trust it more? Well, the idea isn’t so outlandish – it only feels impossible because big tech fir…

Digital literacy interventions can boost humans in discerning deepfakes
Dominique Geissler, Claire Robertson, Stefan Feuerriegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23492 https://…

Digital literacy interventions can boost humans in discerning deepfakes
Deepfakes, i.e., images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), can erode trust in institutions and compromise election outcomes, as people often struggle to discern real images from deepfakes. Improving digital literacy can help address these challenges, yet scalable and effective approaches remain largely unexplored. Here, we compare the efficacy of five digital literacy interventions to boost people's ability to discern deepfakes: (1) textual guidance on common indicators of deepfakes; (2…

🧵 The reason we have an "economy" is so we can get goods and services *we need*, and so that people can *make a living* providing those goods and services. The reason we have government, is so that society can function *for us*. The common thread is providing things and help we *need*. Lets call that "value" . 1/x

Apparently, trump started a financial campaign with him saying "I want to try and get to heaven" or something stupid.
As an exvangelical, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.
🎵🎶 Oh you can't get to heaven (oh you can't get to heaven)
With a trump campaign (with a trump campaign)
Oh you can't get to heaven with a trump campaign
Oh you can't get to heaven with a trump campaign because God doesn't care if the swamp is drained
All my sins …

Everyone thinks #AI can do someone else's job. Designers want to get rid of PMs. PMs think they no longer need devs. Devs can't wait to generate designs. And managers are anticipating getting rid of us all.
Alas, in the few cases the tools work at all, they get you no more than 80% of the way there. Without experts to identify where that 20-100% gap is, you have nothing.
I've …

The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

How can you support artists? Buy art.
#SupportArt #BuyArt
https://muz4now.com/2017/support-artis

How can you support artists? Buy art.
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Can anyone help me with a strange 'social.linux.pizza' issue I have or has anyone else the same problem?
I have three devices, a (Linux) PC, an Android phone and an Honor 12" Android Tablet. Both Tablet and Phone are on Android 14.
I can see and post on 'social.linux.pizza' on the PC and phone. On the PC I use the advanced web interface (AWI), and on the Phone Tusky.
On the Tablet, it also used to work but since yesterday, I can no longer access social.l…

Forgot my laptop the other day and had to take notes on my phone. Amongst various other differences, I feel so much more comfortable w/ a laptop because I can touch-type and look the speaker in the eye; can't on the phone, so it looks like I'm distracted and ignoring them.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Wipers:
🎵 Can This Be
#Wipers
https://wipers.bandcamp.com/track/can-this-be
https://open.spotify.com/track/3efInTGHxTidy7TkKXBBJU

Can Large Language Models Capture Human Risk Preferences? A Cross-Cultural Study
Bing Song, Jianing Liu, Sisi Jian, Chenyang Wu, Vinayak Dixit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23107

Can Large Language Models Capture Human Risk Preferences? A Cross-Cultural Study
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides, extending their applications to dialogue systems, automated content creation, and domain-specific advisory tasks. However, as their use grows, concerns have emerged regarding their reliability in simulating complex decision-making behavior, such as risky decision-making, where a single choice can lead to multiple outcomes. This study investigates the ability of LLMs to simulate risky decision-making scenarios. We compare model-generate…

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power,
--Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise,
--China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive,
-- Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate,
--US has optio…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/26/25
The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power, Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise, China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive, Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate, US has options to counter UK demand for encryption backdoors

Finished removing the deprecated ImGui font size calculations in ngscopeclient.
Now we're down to only two tickets blocking the v0.1 release (MacOS binary packaging and fixing all of the shaders that assume we can run arbitrarily many blocks in the X axis direction).
And hopefully we can get the application icon artwork done by then too.

from my link log —
Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/
saved 2025-08-01

My bike is in the shop so I rode the old Raleigh today. It wasn't great.
I did get new tires & tubes, but the shifting is still bad, the brakes not great, hand grips not comfortable, the gearing is blah. I don't think I could take hills with it.
It's a 3 speed but sometimes I just can't get it to shift.
I did just 3 miles around the neighborhood and the chain came off after the first mile. On my Trek I can get the chain on in 15 seconds. This thing took…

My email address has been the same since 1992, when Ross Perot was in presidential debates with Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush.
That does come with some challenges: desirable email can get overwhelmed within the constant firehose of unwanted email. (So if I've overlooked email from you, please don't hesitate to let me know!)
But overall I'm really glad to have had a stable address where people have been able to reach me for more than 32 years. I can't say that…

Neural Langevin Machine: a local asymmetric learning rule can be creative
Zhendong Yu, Weizhong Huang, Haiping Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23546 https…

Neural Langevin Machine: a local asymmetric learning rule can be creative
Fixed points of recurrent neural networks can be leveraged to store and generate information. These fixed points can be captured by the Boltzmann-Gibbs measure, which leads to neural Langevin dynamics that can be used for sampling and learning a real dataset. We call this type of generative model neural Langevin machine, which is interpretable due to its analytic form of distribution and is simple to train. Moreover, the learning process is derived as a local asymmetric plasticity rule, bearing…

Here are some details of the new #logseq DB variant (currently in alpha):
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-db-unofficial-faq/32508
TL;DR:
- you can't edit the …

Know what's even BETTER than using some kind of dumb looking LLM generated image for your blog post and/or website?
Using a free (or paid) image from https://unsplash.com. Sure, it's an Adobe thing, but the free Creative Commons stuff, you just grab and then you can credit the photographer/artist. It's …

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
My Morning Jacket:
🎵 I Can Hear Your Love
#NowPlaying #MyMorningJacket
https://mmorningjacket.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-hear-your-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6irjehaRKilu5g6XmbWF6J

ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

If an "undercover" officer is seen and known to the press then I would not hesitate to publish their face image and identity - in part because they have failed actually be "undercover".
That said, the fact that agents can't be identified as actual Federal agents, much less identified down to the individual actor when they do ill, is simply unacceptable.
TSA at least has numbers on their "name" badges, so one can make a complaint about a person …

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

"Your service is great, I can't fault it, you have no idea how much it means to me that the first time I've had to contact you in what must be a decade if it's a day is because something so supposedly reliable as paypal has let me down." ❤️
Maybe "you probably won't need to talk to me in a decade" can be my new slogan. 😀

Can AI be Consentful?
Giada Pistilli, Bruna Trevelin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01051

Can AI be Consentful?
The evolution of generative AI systems exposes the challenges of traditional legal and ethical frameworks built around consent. This chapter examines how the conventional notion of consent, while fundamental to data protection and privacy rights, proves insufficient in addressing the implications of AI-generated content derived from personal data. Through legal and ethical analysis, we show that while individuals can consent to the initial use of their data for AI training, they cannot meaningf…

All of us can remember at least some part of ourselves from when we were younger. Within most of us there exists a child with ideals for a good world, untainted by our politics' need for violence and its justifications carried through every layer of society, from education to the media.
Over the years that child is killed, bombarded with misinformation, shot with exaggeration, buried in fear about why certain groups of people who could be their friends or neighbours, are actually rapi…

How Fast Can Graph Computations Go on Fine-grained Parallel Architectures
Yuqing Wang, Charles Colley, Brian Wheatman, Jiya Su, David F. Gleich, Andrew A. Chien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00949

How Fast Can Graph Computations Go on Fine-grained Parallel Architectures
Large-scale graph problems are of critical and growing importance and historically parallel architectures have provided little support. In the spirit of co-design, we explore the question, How fast can graph computing go on a fine-grained architecture? We explore the possibilities of an architecture optimized for fine-grained parallelism, natural programming, and the irregularity and skew found in real-world graphs. Using two graph benchmarks, PageRank (PR) and Breadth-First Search (BFS), we ev…

I feel this very deeply.
(Original title: (DT! comic) A.I. FOMO can FO)
https://designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/dt-comic-ai-fomo-can-fo

(DT! comic) A.I. FOMO can FO
DT! for today

> Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/24/200-000-flemish…

GUARD-CAN: Graph-Understanding and Recurrent Architecture for CAN Anomaly Detection
Hyeong Seon Kim, Huy Kang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21640 https://…

GUARD-CAN: Graph-Understanding and Recurrent Architecture for CAN Anomaly Detection
Modern in-vehicle networks face various cyber threats due to the lack of encryption and authentication in the Controller Area Network (CAN). To address this security issue, this paper presents GUARD-CAN, an anomaly detection framework that combines graph-based representation learning with time-series modeling. GUARD-CAN splits CAN messages into fixed-length windows and converts each window into a graph that preserves message order. To detect anomalies in the timeaware and structure-aware contex…

I have nothing useful to add, except that this used to be a feature of some browsers.
https://toot.cat/@jamey/114960843294349709

@… Big fan of hosting stuff at home, but I think it's worth acknowledging that the risk analysis is a bit more complicated than assuming home is always best:
If you're hosting things at home, law enforcement can seize it, and local ISPs can be compelled to shut you down.
If however you host with a third party in a different legal jurisdiction…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: She can't be, it's unmanned. The systems are automatic.
SERVALAN: A group of scientists and technicians elected to spend the rest of their lives refining, checking and guarding the systems.

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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

What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representation Learning from Atypical Videos
Humans usually show exceptional generalisation and discovery ability in the open world, when being shown uncommon new concepts. Whereas most existing studies in the literature focus on common typical data from closed sets, open-world novel discovery is under-explored in videos. In this paper, we are interested in asking: \textit{What if atypical unusual videos are exposed in the learning process?} To this end, we collect a new video dataset consisting of various types of unusual atypical data (…

"Pollution from wildfires can contaminate our water for up to 8 years, study finds"
#Pollution #Wildfires #Environment

Pollution from wildfires can contaminate our water for up to eight years, new study finds
An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a wildfire.

ICYMI some positive news from this week: 'UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds'
'Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them'
https://www.theguardian.co…

Seeing is not believing in limited visibility cops and robbers
Bojan Ba\v{s}i\'c, Alfie Davies, Aleksa D\v{z}uklevski, Strahinja Gvozdi\'c, Yannick Mogge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00941

Seeing is not believing in limited visibility cops and robbers
We consider the model of limited visibility Cops and Robbers, where the cops can only see within their $l$-neighbourhood. We prove that the number of cops needed to see the robber can be arbitrarily smaller than the number needed to capture the robber, answering an open question from the literature. We then consider how close we can get to seeing the robber when we do not have enough cops, along with a probabilistic interpretation.

new liboprf release v0.9.2, besides minor packaging fixes this brings #zig support. you can now import liboprf as a zig module and it will build a static library you can use in your zig project.
https://github.com/stef/liboprf/r…

Release Minor release: zig module support and packaging · stef/liboprf
this release brings a few minor packaging fixes, and a build.zig file which allows liboprf to be used az a zig module and built by zig.

"You can read this new post on my substa…" *BLOCK*

If Dak Prescott falls again, can Joe Milton carry the Cowboys? https://insidethestar.com/if-dak-prescott-falls-again-can-joe-milton-carry-the-cowboys

Morning Jams Continue
As near as I can tell, I did the first of these morning jams on January 27, 2025. If I search on "jam" in my project folder I get 230 tracks, of which I would say about 200 or so are morning jams. They started out as just guitar, then over time I starting adding a drum groove, then a bass part, then synth.

How long can this go on? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.iYaY.Y1Cz-EJUmmUi&smid=u…

Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze in West Bank Attack
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

And just like in humans, long-term sun damage can lead to skin cancer.
"Animals can also get skin cancer. Cancer in general among animals is quite common," says Mejdell.
https://www.sciencenorway.no/can-animals-also-get-sunburned/2533345

Can animals also get sunburned?
Sometimes animals also need to be protected with sunscreen.

After 2.5 months owning a #Framework 13, I can add one more review to the pile:
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_Framework13-2/
Curious to hear about your own experien…

Interesting… Created compound clips to sync up various microphones with the video, so they could all be cut at once. Once the edits are done, I detach the audio so I can create crossfades between the pieces.
Came across a compound clip that could not be ungrouped and I couldn't figure out… Turns out that if you've re-timed a compound clip you can't separate what's in it anymore. So I had to set it to 100%, separate it, and then reapply the re-time!

When you realize you can't pet every single cat in the world :c

Ranking offseason traded players in terms of situation: Can George Pickens succeed with Cowboys?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking

Imputing With Predictive Mean Matching Can Be Severely Biased When Values Are Missing At Random
Paul T. von Hippel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22981 https:/…

Imputing With Predictive Mean Matching Can Be Severely Biased When Values Are Missing At Random
Predictive mean matching (PMM) is a popular imputation strategy that imputes missing values by borrowing observed values from other cases with similar expectations. We show that, unlike other imputation strategies, PMM is not guaranteed to be consistent -- and in fact can be severely biased -- when values are missing at random (when the probability a value is missing depends only on values that are observed). We demonstrate the bias in a simple situation where a complete variable $X$ is both …

Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments (Virginia Furness/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cli

⛓️‍💥 Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
#ai #llm

Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
Modern tokenizers employ deterministic algorithms to map text into a single "canonical" token sequence, yet the same string can be encoded as many non-canonical tokenizations using the tokenizer vocabulary. In this work, we investigate the robustness of LMs to text encoded with non-canonical tokenizations entirely unseen during training. Surprisingly, when evaluated across 20 benchmarks, we find that instruction-tuned models retain up to 93.4% of their original performance when given a randomly…

My article Vent or Win, Choose Wisely has been accepted for publication by The Geopolitical Economist:
https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/vent-or-win-choose-wisely-c618c86f1472

Vent or Win, Choose Wisely - The Geopolitical Economist - Medium
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better. The first feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now; the…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Who:
🎵 I Can See for Miles
#TheWho
https://womensingthewho.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-see-for-miles-women-sing-the-who-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/64SFBGTQvXgEHds3F01rpc

If Trump embodies the theory of the “unitary executive,” it’s because conservative jurists like John Roberts and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have
— along with their Republican-appointed colleagues
— effectively rewritten the Constitution to allow for the exercise of virtually unaccountable power by Republican presidents.
Yes, you can attribute some of the worst of this administration to the specific authoritarian vision of Trump and his allies.
But a good deal of…

Opinion | Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is?
The president is a normie Republican. Stop thinking otherwise.

Large language models can learn and generalize steganographic chain-of-thought under process supervision
Joey Skaf, Luis Ibanez-Lissen, Robert McCarthy, Connor Watts, Vasil Georgiv, Hannes Whittingham, Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, David Lindner, Cameron Tice, Edward James Young, Puria Radmard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01926

Large language models can learn and generalize steganographic chain-of-thought under process supervision
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning not only enhances large language model performance but also provides critical insights into decision-making processes, marking it as a useful tool for monitoring model intent and planning. By proactively preventing models from acting on CoT indicating misaligned or harmful intent, CoT monitoring can be used to reduce risks associated with deploying models. However, developers may be incentivized to train away the appearance of harmful intent from CoT traces, by …

11 Gorgeous Places Americans Can Visit Right Now Without Passport or Immigration Drama https://themodernfield.com/epic-places-americans-visit-without-pass…

11 Gorgeous Places Americans Can Visit Right Now Without Passport or Immigration Drama
Got that travel bug, but your passport is gathering dust? Or maybe you just realized it expired. Don't worry. I've been there. You don't have to put your dreams of an epic getaway on hold.

How fast can Eagles safety Marcus Epps get up to speed ahead of Week 1 vs. the Cowboys? https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2025/09/01/how-fast-can-eagles-safety-marcus-epps-get-up-to-s…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 I Can See You
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-see-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AkcMH7UjxBYEonbCbIiPd

New VLT image shows supernova remnant 0509-67.5, the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double detonation-- the first photographic evidence that stars can die with two blasts https://phys.org/news/2025-07-detonation-image-star-de…

Double detonation: New image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), they have found patterns that confirm its star suffered a pair of explosive blasts.

To Determine if Changing to White Light Street Lamps Reduces Crime - A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis of Crime Occurrence during the Relighting of Leeds, a UK City: #LightPollution

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal #environment

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth's most powerful levers for mitigating climate change.

The new month has started and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately eats up a lot of time :blobcatnotlikethis: :boost_requested:
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3 reasons the Cowboys can upset the Eagles include Dak's division dominance https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/02/cowboys-eagles-3-reasons-can-win/85931439007/

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

Did you know playing Tetris can help with PTSD, panic attacks and anxiety? Like as it can help immediately within minutes.
Get yourself an old Game Boy Advance SP or a modern Game Boy-emulating handheld console and keep it around.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
S.G. Goodman:
🎵 I Can See the Devil
#SGGoodman
https://sggoodman.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-see-the-devil
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qcRXVjAWYgIjGmR7u4YYJ

My biggest gripe with most sports games is there's almost always a winner. Why can't both team lose?

The issue with "Apple takes over Substack payments to you can no longer port your subscriptions" as an argument to leave is that "it's a Nazi platform that funds Nazis" didn't work.
There's just the hope that "having a Substack" somehow pays better than running your blog somewhere else and that that trumps every argument. People will stay there.
(Which sucks cause some people whose work is important publish it on Substack making it impos…

@…
Just a follow-up.
In trying to get my account (@… working on my Tablet I logged out of my account and although I can see my posts I can't log in again as although I have my email address and password saved I …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Saint Etienne:
🎵 Only Love Can Break Your Heart
#NowPlaying #SaintEtienne
https://housemusic3.bandcamp.com/track/saint-etienne-only-love-can-break-your-heart-masters-at-work-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/2l2JonC9Mmrqs5sC7G0SlD

Cowboy Roundup: Saquon Barkley's comments don't matter, Can Dallas win NFC East? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/saquon-barkley-comments-dont-matter-can-dallas-cowboys-win-nfc-east

№ 23 Carter Meshanic (whose brother Hunter is also on the team) of the William Smith Senators tries to get the ball past № 14 Alex Penders 6' 5'' of the IC Bombers
#photo #photography #sports

I'm not an anti-intellectualist, but I do believe people can overcomplicate things. I had a debate once with someone who argued “well, aren't we all migrants? All of humanity emerged from the African continent, so...” and I mean, sure, that's true, but now you're just playing with definitions of words rather than accepting the agreed upon definition in order to engage with this debate.
While people like Jordan Peterson are prominent examples of pseudo-intellectuals, who…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
M.O.T.O.:
🎵 The Chicks Can Tell
#MOTO
https://secretmissionrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-chicks-can-tell
https://open.spotify.com/track/4s1IblzluMGm0f6ZTQrLTy

Raiders hope Devin White can get back to Pro Bowl level, make impact https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45598605/las-vegas-raiders-devin-white-impact

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Sahil Tripathi, Md Tabrez Nafis, Imran Hussain, Jiechao Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23464 https…

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) systems are increasingly deployed in real world applications, yet they remain ethically opaque-often producing overconfident answers to ambiguous questions or failing to communicate uncertainty in a trustworthy manner. This misalignment between model confidence and actual knowledge poses significant risks, particularly in domains requiring ethical accountability. Existing approaches such as LayoutLMv3, UDOP, and DONUT have advanced SOTA performance by…

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Dan Mangan:
🎵 About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At
#NowPlaying #DanMangan
https://danmangan.bandcamp.com/track/about-as-helpful-as-you-can-be-without-being-any-help-at-all
https://open.spotify.com/track/3N74seW1F0IOqUdZx1wWQW

Water Contaminant Levels Can Remain High for Eight Years After a Wildfire, Study Finds #environment

Water Contaminant Levels Can Remain High for Eight Years After a Wildfire, Study Finds
Wildfire pollutants can continue to contaminate local waterways for up to eight years after a wildfire event, scientists are warning.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wolf Parade:
🎵 As Kind as You Can
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/as-kind-as-you-can
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qYxEgWFR15m5OQTfGamAC

Yes In My Bamako Yard
Over the next 25 years, Africa is expected to add 900 million people to its cities, the largest wave of urban population growth the world has ever seen. How can the continent begin to prepare today?
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/yes-in-my-bamako-yard…

Yes In My Bamako Yard—Asterisk
Over the next 25 years, Africa is expected to add 900 million people to its cities, the largest wave of urban population growth the world has ever seen. How can the continent begin to prepare today?

How Steelers can replace Minkah Fitzpatrick following shocking trade: 3 players Pittsburgh could target

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-ste

The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships?
Djallel Bouneffouf, Matthew Riemer, Kush Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01813

The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships?
This paper introduces the Shepherd Test, a new conceptual test for assessing the moral and relational dimensions of superintelligent artificial agents. The test is inspired by human interactions with animals, where ethical considerations about care, manipulation, and consumption arise in contexts of asymmetric power and self-preservation. We argue that AI crosses an important, and potentially dangerous, threshold of intelligence when it exhibits the ability to manipulate, nurture, and instrumen…

Cowboys' CeeDee Lamb, Trevon Diggs dispute Micah Parsons rumors: 'He can't do any wrong in my eyes'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Cowboy Roundup: Biggest training camp questions, Can 2024 draft class step up? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/biggest-dallas-cowboys-training-camp-questions-can-2024-nfl-draft-class-step-up

Steelers and Dolphins make blockbuster trade, plus Lamar Jackson confident Ravens can finally win Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/st…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pete Seeger:
🎵 John Henry
#PeteSeeger
https://peteseeger.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-all-join-in-it-takes-everybody-to-build-this-land-indian-deer-hunting-yankee-doodle-old-chisholm-trail-the-farmer-is-the-man-erie-canal-low-bridge-john-henry
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ujUeX97taQeH1Lb3M9ykD

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Original Koffee:
🎵 KOFFEE (clean edit)
#OriginalKoffee
https://nervousrecords.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-not-hold-back-feat-koffee-original-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dWKOf4DweFGtwUvSmbdbj