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Santa Clarita, CA
#NoKings #NoBillionaires
Rally · Volunteer organized for May Day Strong
Saturday, October 18
9am – 2pm PDT
"Good Trouble" Corner
Valencia Boulevard & McBean Parkway
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

Santa Clarita, CA #NoKings #NoBillionaires · People For the American Way
Billionaires are converting the government into their private slush fund and just passed the largest wealth giveaway in the history of the US. The money they take from our families, they put in their overstuffed pockets. **Just like any bad boss, the way we stop the takeover is with collective action.** We are working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover–not just through the ballot box or the courts, but through building a bigger and stronger movement. We are fighting for a coun…

FastUMI-100K: Advancing Data-driven Robotic Manipulation with a Large-scale UMI-style Dataset
Kehui Liu, Zhongjie Jia, Yang Li, Zhaxizhuoma, Pengan Chen, Song Liu, Xin Liu, Pingrui Zhang, Haoming Song, Xinyi Ye, Nieqing Cao, Zhigang Wang, Jia Zeng, Dong Wang, Yan Ding, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08022

FastUMI-100K: Advancing Data-driven Robotic Manipulation with a Large-scale UMI-style Dataset
Data-driven robotic manipulation learning depends on large-scale, high-quality expert demonstration datasets. However, existing datasets, which primarily rely on human teleoperated robot collection, are limited in terms of scalability, trajectory smoothness, and applicability across different robotic embodiments in real-world environments. In this paper, we present FastUMI-100K, a large-scale UMI-style multimodal demonstration dataset, designed to overcome these limitations and meet the growing…

LM Fight Arena: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models via Game Competition
Yushuo Zheng, Zicheng Zhang, Xiongkuo Min, Huiyu Duan, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08928 h…

LM Fight Arena: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models via Game Competition
Existing benchmarks for large multimodal models (LMMs) often fail to capture their performance in real-time, adversarial environments. We introduce LM Fight Arena (Large Model Fight Arena), a novel framework that evaluates LMMs by pitting them against each other in the classic fighting game Mortal Kombat II, a task requiring rapid visual understanding and tactical, sequential decision-making. In a controlled tournament, we test six leading open- and closed-source models, where each agent operat…

The near infrared SED of young star clusters in the FEAST galaxies: Missing ingredients at 1 - 5 $\mu$m
Alex Pedrini, Angela Adamo, Arjan Bik, Daniela Calzetti, Sean T. Linden, Benjamin Gregg, Varun Bajaj, Jenna E. Ryon, Anne S. M. Buckner, Giacomo Bortolini, Michele Cignoni, Matteo Correnti, Ana Duarte-Cabral, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Helena Faustino Vieira, John S. Gallagher, Kathryn Grasha, Kelsey E. Johnson, Mark R. Krumholz, Drew Lapeer, Thomas S. -Y. Lai, Matteo Messa, G\"oran \&…

The near infrared SED of young star clusters in the FEAST galaxies: Missing ingredients at 1 - 5 $μ$m
We present a combined HST and JWST 0.2 - to - 5 $μ$m analysis of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of emerging young star clusters (eYSCs) in four nearby galaxies from the Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers (FEAST) survey: M51, M83, NGC 628, and NGC 4449. These clusters, selected for their bright Pa$α$ and 3.3 $μ$m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission, are still associated to their natal gas cloud and have been largely missed in previous HST optical campaigns. …

Here's the cover from a really great book of short stories, from 2010, named "Shadow Show".
The stories, written by a wide variety of top-notch authors, such as Margaret Atwood and Harlan Ellison, each celebrate Ray Bradbury's life and writing.
(The book cover art is by Tom Gauld--I found it searching online for Gauld's cartoons.)
#Writing

Examining Solidarity Against AI-Enabled Surveillance at the Intersection of Workplace and Carceral Realities
Morgan McErlean, Cella M. Sum, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Sarah Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06537

Examining Solidarity Against AI-Enabled Surveillance at the Intersection of Workplace and Carceral Realities
As panoptical, AI-driven surveillance becomes a norm, everyone is impacted. In a reality where all people fall victim to these technologies, establishing links and solidarity is essential to fighting back. Two groups facing rising and targeted surveillance are workers and individuals impacted by the carceral system. Through preliminary data collection from a worker-surveillance lens, our findings reveal several cases of these surveillance infrastructures intersecting. Continuation of our work w…

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Check the outer hatch in case someone decides to try and join us.
RAIKER: I want a boarding crew kitted out and ready to follow me over.
[Technician nods.]
[Switch to Blake, trying to push/pull the hatch closed.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/651

Fictional depiction of mild self-harm, blood.
#WritersCoffeeClub July 23: Share a description you're proud of.
I've been writing a vampire novel lately. Here's a description from the scene when the vampire character proves to the human protagonist that he's been telling the truth:
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"It's okay, Ada," he gave me a reassuring close-mouthed smile. "Just watch."
He slashed across his wrist in a motion that made the matching scars on my left arm hum. I covered them with my right hand, as if to calm my skin that I wasn't hurting it like that anymore. That we were merely watching someone else.
The cut on Theodore's arm turned red and angry, as expected. And then, just before the wound pooled up enough to bleed, it closed. I watched time run backwards as it disappeared, the skin stitching itself together to leave no trace of the violence imposed on it by the blade.
"What?" I walked up to him as he handed his wrist to me for inspection. I ran the tips of my fingers over the spot where the cut was mere moments before - but Theodore's skin, cold as always, was smooth and unharmed.
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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: [V.O.] Later, Cally, this is more important. We've made a deal but we need the rest of the money as a demonstration of good faith. They don't entirely trust us yet. Have...Zen collect it and bring in across.
CALLY: All the money? [Largo's quarters. Largo holds bracelet for Blake]
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