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MASSIVE attack on Kyiv: consequences of the strikes on the Ukrainian capital #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/massive-attack-on-kyiv-consequences.html

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Leonardo Christov-Moore (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Arthur Juliani (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Alex Kiefer (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, VERSES, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies), Nicco Reggente (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), B. Scott Rousse (A…

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Physical vulnerability and mortality are often seen as obstacles to be avoided in the development of artificial agents, which struggle to adapt to open-ended environments and provide aligned care. Meanwhile, biological organisms survive, thrive, and care for each other in an open-ended physical world with relative ease and efficiency. Understanding the role of the conditions of life in this disparity can aid in developing more robust, adaptive, and caring artificial agents. Here we define two m…

Giants' Brian Daboll gets heated on sideline during Jaxson Dart's concussion check https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6705380/2025/10/09/giants-brian-daboll-injury-concussion-check/

Matt Eberflus announces changes to Cowboys' starting linebackers rotation https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/matt-eberflus-announces-changes-dallas-cowboys-starting-linebackers-rotation

Immersions and Albertson's conjecture
Jacob Fox, Janos Pach, Andrew Suk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05893

Immersions and Albertson's conjecture
A graph is said to contain $K_k$ (a clique of size $k$) as a weak immersion if it has $k$ vertices, pairwise connected by edge-disjoint paths. In 1989, Lescure and Meyniel made the following conjecture related to Hadwiger's conjecture: Every graph of chromatic number $k$ contains $K_k$ as a weak immersion. We prove this conjecture for graphs with at most $(1.64-o(1))k$ vertices. As an application, we make some progress on Albertson's conjecture, according to which every graph $G$ with chromatic…

MuFASA -- Asynchronous Checkpoint for Weakly Consistent Fully Replicated Databases
Raaghav Ravishankar, Sandeep Kulkarni, Nitin H Vaidya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06404 https:/…

MuFASA -- Asynchronous Checkpoint for Weakly Consistent Fully Replicated Databases
We focus on the problem of checkpointing in fully replicated weakly consistent distributed databases, which we refer to as Distributed Transaction Consistent Snapshot (DTCS). A typical example of such a system is a main-memory database that provides strong eventual consistency. This problem is important and challenging for several reasons: (1) eventual consistency often creates anomalies that the users do not anticipate. Hence, frequent checkpoints to ascertain desired invariants is highly bene…

Inflation quashed household income gains in 2024, census finds (Gaya Gupta/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/09/census-household-income-inflation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU3MzkwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4NzcyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTczOTA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImVkN2UxNzRjLTRjMWUtNDhiNS04NTdiLWRkMDg4OGQ0MDc1MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyNS8wOS8wOS9jZW5zdXMtaG91c2Vob2xkLWluY29tZS1pbmZsYXRpb24vIn0.-6DXtKaEItl3MoY9o2zfF5ZY5VA0BNY6KKYJ3lyzRHM&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p130#a250909p130

Intel announces top-level executive changes, including the departure of its products chief, Michelle Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-a

Cowboys' MLB remains in concussion protocol ahead of Week 6 vs Panthers https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-mlb-remains-concussion-protocol-nfl-week-6-panthers

8 Reasons the Cowboys’ 37–22 Win Over the Jets Changes Everything https://insidethestar.com/8-reasons-the-cowboys-37-22-win-over-the-jets-changes-everything