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Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

GG fragt nach: Das neue Café SPOTLIGHT von CORRECTIV.
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GG fragt nach: Das neue Café SPOTLIGHT von CORRECTIV - Europa Blog
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I've always thought of civility like I think of objectivity in news:
well intended, but entirely optional standard that often results in things that need to be said not being said in order to keep messages more palatable.
Of course, I am a Midwestern guy who teaches the 1st Amendment for a living.
-- Christopher Terry
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On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

Crystal Growth & Physical Property Characterization of Mixed Topological Insulator BiSbTe$_3$
Dinesh Kumar (Banasthali), Kapil Kumar (CSIR-NPL), N. K. Karn (CSIR-NPL), Ganesh Gurjar (Ramajas - DU), V. P. S. Awana (CSIR-NPL), Sudesh (Banasthali)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24471

Crystal Growth & Physical Property Characterization of Mixed Topological Insulator BiSbTe$_3$
This article reports the synthesis of a single crystalline mixed topological insulator (TI) BiSbTe$_3$ and its detailed structural and magneto-transport properties. The single crystalline samples of BiSbTe$_3$ are grown by the melt-growth process and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX) and Raman spectroscopy. The single crystal XRD peaks dictated the growth direction along the c-axis. The Raman spectrum elucidated the characteristic peaks of the mix…

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Estimating Correctness Without Oracles in LLM-Based Code Generation
Thomas Valentin, Ardi Madadi, Gaetano Sapia, Marcel B\"ohme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00057

Estimating Correctness Without Oracles in LLM-Based Code Generation
Generating code from natural language specifications is one of the most successful applications of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, they hallucinate: LLMs produce outputs that may be grammatically correct but are factually incorrect. Without an existing, correct implementation (i.e., an oracle), can we quantify how likely the generated program is correct? In this paper, we propose a measure of incorrectness, called incoherence, that can be estimated efficiently in the absence of an oracle a…

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Judge frees up Trump tariffs pending DC Circuit appeal | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-frees-up-trump-tariffs-pending-dc-circuit-appeal/

Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C.
The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker.
All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit.
They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.
https://b…