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Give us feedback on what you want to see in Vancouver in March!
Please share this far and wide: this is not just a tech conference, it's building the communities and shared spaces that we want together.
#WeCanJustDoThings
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Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100 dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/threads-takes-on-x-with-new-communities-f…

Threads takes on X with new communities feature | TechCrunch
Threads officially debuts communities, dedicated spaces to have casual chats around a topic.

That's disappointing. I really liked the ACX.
#Glendale #Bayshore #ACX

Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100 dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/threads-takes-on-x-with-new-communities-f…

Threads takes on X with new communities feature | TechCrunch
The idea, explains Meta, is to give users dedicated spaces within the app where they can delve deeper into conversations on topics that matter to them.

Talking about #Heritage | Communities | Historic Environment Scotland
Have your say about which aspects of Scotland's heritage matter to you and how you'd like to see it protected.
https://www.

Talking about Heritage
Explore, share and celebrate your heritage with our Talking About Heritage

Chart of the week: What do Ukraine's front-line communities need?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/chart-of-the-week-what.html

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
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/27/25
How the internet radicalizes young men, The real-life damage of porn deepfakes, The JLR attack damaged local communities, Amazon is pushing into the police tech market, Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist

"He [potus] spoke of a necessary confrontation with an “enemy from within” and proposed using our own cities as “training grounds” for troops. This rhetoric dangerously blurs the line between soldier and police officer, a distinction that has been a cornerstone of American liberty for over two centuries and is enshrined in federal law. It is a radical departure that treats dissent as insurgency and American communities as battlefields."

"An Enemy From Within": Trump's Plan to Turn the Military on American Citizens
Donald Trump called American cities "training grounds" for our troops. We need to take that threat seriously.

I liked the Fox Bay and still mourn it's passing but it's nice to see something opening in that space. I'll be checking it out.
"The venue's first public event on Dec. 5 will feature local artists Chris Haise Band and Zach Pietrini, as well as Nashville-based alt-pop trio VEAUX. This event also serves as a fundraiser, with profits given back to local Milwaukee music programs, according to a Nov. 5 news release announcing the opening."
#WhitefishBay #Milwaukee #TheArgo

🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study
Proposals for new wind power infrastructure frequently face opposition in affected communities. While right-wing populists are often among the opponents, the question remains: are they actually driving these protests?

It is slowly getting published:
Proofs for my special issue on Camp Memories (all texts are already published online first)
A first view on the TOC !!
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
@…

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship

Introducing the a16z New Media Fellowship
A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media

"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive…

Botender: Supporting Communities in Collaboratively Designing AI Agents through Case-Based Provocations
Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Sophia Liu, Quan Ze Chen, Joseph Seering, Amy X. Zhang, Haiyi Zhu, Kenneth Holstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25492

Botender: Supporting Communities in Collaboratively Designing AI Agents through Case-Based Provocations
AI agents, or bots, serve important roles in online communities. However, they are often designed by outsiders or a few tech-savvy members, leading to bots that may not align with the broader community's needs. How might communities collectively shape the behavior of community bots? We present Botender, a system that enables communities to collaboratively design LLM-powered bots without coding. With Botender, community members can directly propose, iterate on, and deploy custom bot behaviors ta…

I don't know if REACH GREEN is really going to plant 10,000 trees but I'm going to ride my bike anyway this month so I'll just log my miles...
https://www.reachgreen.org/

REACH GREEN | Inspiring Local Action for a Greener Future
Join REACH GREEN to protect parks and trails, empower communities through sustainability events and expert resources. Be a part of climate action today!

Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities | Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/01/hegseths-decision-wounded-knee-medals-sparks-outrage-native-american-communities.html

PHORECAST: Enabling AI Understanding of Public Health Outreach Across Populations
Rifaa Qadri, Anh Nhat Nhu, Swati Ramnath, Laura Yu Zheng, Raj Bhansali, Sylvette La Touche-Howard, Tracy Marie Zeeger, Tom Goldstein, Ming Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02535

PHORECAST: Enabling AI Understanding of Public Health Outreach Across Populations
Understanding how diverse individuals and communities respond to persuasive messaging holds significant potential for advancing personalized and socially aware machine learning. While Large Vision and Language Models (VLMs) offer promise, their ability to emulate nuanced, heterogeneous human responses, particularly in high stakes domains like public health, remains underexplored due in part to the lack of comprehensive, multimodal dataset. We introduce PHORECAST (Public Health Outreach REceptiv…

"Repair cafes bringing new life to cherished items, building communities and boosting sustainability"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Ireland

Body slamming, teargas
and pepper balls:
Viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago
A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and
'targeted attacks’ on protesters
There have been reports of increasingly aggressive ICE enforcement in communities, including helicopters hovering over apartment raids.
There have also been arrests of local officials and candidates for office who were protesting,
inclu…

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship

Introducing the a16z New Media Fellowship
A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media

Stay ahead of monsoon floods with new hyperlocal forecasts in Indian cities. Early warnings to keep communities safe and prepared. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

For my Native American friends. This includes American Indian/Alaska Native(AI/AN), Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. This is a national survey, not just for Oklahoma communities. #domesticviolence

as “industry” survey season rolls around again it’s important to remember that the results from these things reflect the biases of the most popular dev communities that promote them (and then we get to all pretend like the results are meritocratic)
I now believe it’s better to not participate at all

For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge #Panama

For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge
The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which occurs annually in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025. A study led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) indicates that the weakening of the trade winds was the cause of this event. This finding highlights the climate's impact on fundamental oceanic processes and the coastal communities that depend on them.

Draugnet is a lightweight, open-source tool for anonymous cyber threat reporting. Built for the MISP ecosystem, it lets users submit and track reports — no accounts, no logins, just a simple token. Supports plain text, MISP JSON, and object templates. ideal for CSIRTs, ISACs, and trusted communities. 🔐 Built for anonymity 🧩 Easy MISP integration .
version 1.2.0 released with RTIR, Flowintel and Ollama integration.
Source code:

Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Lisi Qarkaxhija, Maximilian Carparo, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Ingo Scholtes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26173

Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Understanding the collective social behavior of software developers is crucial to model and predict the long-term dynamics and sustainability of Open Source Software (OSS) communities. To this end, we analyze temporal activity patterns of developers, revealing an inherently ``bursty'' nature of commit contributions. To investigate the social mechanisms behind this phenomenon, we adopt a network-based modelling framework that captures developer interactions through co-editing networks. Our frame…

Discovering Communities in Continuous-Time Temporal Networks by Optimizing L-Modularity
Victor Brabant, Angela Bonifati, R\'emy Cazabet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00741 http…

Discovering Communities in Continuous-Time Temporal Networks by Optimizing L-Modularity
Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis, with many applications in various fields. Extending community detection to the temporal setting with exact temporal accuracy, as required by real-world dynamic data, necessitates methods specifically adapted to the temporal nature of interactions. We introduce LAGO, a novel method for uncovering dynamic communities by greedy optimization of Longitudinal Modularity, a specific adaptation of Modularity for continuous-time networks.…

Dynamical theory of chiral-induced spin selectivity in electron donor-chiral molecule-acceptor systems
Tian-Yi Zhang, Yue Mao, Ai-Min Guo, Qing-Feng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04020

Dynamical theory of chiral-induced spin selectivity in electron donor-chiral molecule-acceptor systems
The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, a phenomenon where the chirality of molecules imparts significant spin selectivity to electron transfer processes, has garnered increasing interest among the chemistry, biology, and physics communities. Although this effect was discovered more than a decade ago, the dynamical process of how electron spin polarization is caused by chiral molecules is still unclear. Here, we propose a dynamical theory of electron transfer in donor-chiral molecule…

Unpacking Musical Symbolism in Online Communities: Content-Based and Network-Centric Approaches
Kajwan Ziaoddini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00006 https://a…

Unpacking Musical Symbolism in Online Communities: Content-Based and Network-Centric Approaches
This paper examines how musical symbolism is produced and circulated in online communities by combining content-based music analysis with a lightweight network perspective on lyrics. Using a curated corpus of 275 chart-topping songs enriched with audio descriptors (energy, danceability, loudness, liveness, valence, acousticness, speechiness, popularity) and full lyric transcripts, we build a reproducible pipeline that (i) quantifies temporal trends in sonic attributes, (ii) models lexical salie…

Low-Cost Open-Source Ambidextrous Robotic Hand with 23 Direct-Drive servos for American Sign Language Alphabet
Kelvin Daniel Gonzalez Amador
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03690 htt…

Low-Cost Open-Source Ambidextrous Robotic Hand with 23 Direct-Drive servos for American Sign Language Alphabet
Accessible communication through sign language is vital for deaf communities, 1 yet robotic solutions are often costly and limited. This study presents VulcanV3, a low- 2 cost, open-source, 3D-printed ambidextrous robotic hand capable of reproducing the full 3 American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet (52 signs for right- and left-hand configurations). 4 The system employs 23 direct-drive servo actuators for precise finger and wrist movements, 5 controlled by an Arduino Mega with dual PCA9685 modul…

A minimal model of self-organized clusters with phase transitions in ecological communities
Shing Yan Li, Mehran Kardar, Zhijie Feng, Washington Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24985

A minimal model of self-organized clusters with phase transitions in ecological communities
In complex ecological communities, species may self-organize into clusters or clumps where highly similar species can coexist. The emergence of such species clusters can be captured by the interplay between neutral and niche theories. Based on the generalized Lotka-Volterra model of competition, we propose a minimal model for ecological communities in which the steady states contain self-organized clusters. In this model, species compete only with their neighbors in niche space through a common…

Over the weekend I browsed through some of the records I inherited from my parents and stumbled across Johnny Cash's "Bitter Tears" and wondered what the native communities he sang about thought about the record at the time. But I didn't really find any literature or articles on the reception by anybody except by white racists and white liberals. Would anybody have any leads for me to follow to learn more?

@… I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your appearance on the Reimagining the Internet podcast back in April with Ethan Zuckerman. Just finally listened to it today while driving, and enjoyed your insights around online communities, the Fediverse, Bluesky, and so much more. Thanks for doing all the writing and speaking that you are doing.
(if you haven’t listene…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- On the Optimization of Methods for Establishing Well-Connected Communities
Dindoost, Rodriguez, Bryg, Park, Chacko, Warnow, Bader

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…

A semi-automatic approach to study population dynamics based on population pyramids
Max Hahn-Klimroth, Jo\~ao Pedro Meireles, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Nick van Eeuwijk Mads F. Bertelsen, Paul W. Dierkes, Marcus Clauss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03788

A semi-automatic approach to study population dynamics based on population pyramids
The depiction of populations - of humans or animals - as "population pyramids" is a useful tool for the assessment of various characteristics of populations at a glance. Although these visualisations are well-known objects in various communities, formalised and algorithmic approaches to gain information from these data are less present. Here, we present an algorithm-based classification of population data into "pyramids" of different shapes ([normal and inverted] pyramid / plunger / bell, [lowe…

LLM-Based Multi-Task Bangla Hate Speech Detection: Type, Severity, and Target
Md Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Md Fahad Hossain, Usman Naseem, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01995

LLM-Based Multi-Task Bangla Hate Speech Detection: Type, Severity, and Target
Online social media platforms are central to everyday communication and information seeking. While these platforms serve positive purposes, they also provide fertile ground for the spread of hate speech, offensive language, and bullying content targeting individuals, organizations, and communities. Such content undermines safety, participation, and equity online. Reliable detection systems are therefore needed, especially for low-resource languages where moderation tools are limited. In Bangla,…

If you read one thing today…
1. You should read more
2. Make it this 👇 https://mastodon.social/@danielquinn/114793526868620928

Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…

Nvidia Ranks Last on AI Supply Chain Decarbonization, Greenpeace Report Finds - Greenpeace East Asia
HONG KONG – Nvidia, the world's first US$4 trillion firm and a leader in AI chip design, is falling significantly behind other AI giants in cutting emissions and transitioning to renewable energy, especially across its AI hardware manufacturing supply chain, according to a new report released by Greenpeace East Asia. 

I love this: 'At the Sycamore Collective we believe technology should give people more power to shape their lives not less' https://sycamore-collective.org/how-can-the-we-strengthen-the-role-of-people-and-communities-…

Reproducible Builds for Quantum Computing
Iy\'an M\'endez Veiga, Esther H\"anggi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02251 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Reproducible Builds for Quantum Computing
Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that establish an independently verifiable path from source code to binary artifacts, helping to detect and mitigate certain classes of supply chain attacks. Although quantum computing is a rapidly evolving field of research, it can already benefit from adopting reproducible builds. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the quantum computing and reproducible builds communities. We propose a generalization of the definition of r…

The Current State of AI Bias Bounties: An Overview of Existing Programmes and Research
Sergej Kucenko, Nathaniel Dennler, Fengxiang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02036 https://

The Current State of AI Bias Bounties: An Overview of Existing Programmes and Research
Current bias evaluation methods rarely engage with communities impacted by AI systems. Inspired by bug bounties, bias bounties have been proposed as a reward-based method that involves communities in AI bias detection by asking users of AI systems to report biases they encounter when interacting with such systems. In the absence of a state-of-the-art review, this survey aimed to identify and analyse existing AI bias bounty programmes and to present academic literature on bias bounties. Google, …

Due to the devastating harm being done to the USA by the current administration, and the administration of Texas I have donated again to the Texas Civil Rights Project https://www.txcivilrights.org (doubling my giving for 2025).
I will be doing the same for several other

Home | Texas Civil Rights Project
TCRP believe that by serving the rising social justice movement in Texas with excellent legal representation and bold strategies, we can respond to the needs of the communities we serve.

A fire will be lit in Galway this September as
Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures returns for its seventh annual gathering.
It celebrates and brings together nomadic voices from Traveller, Roma, Sšmi, Inuit, and other indigenous communities in a crossroads of cultures.
https://…

Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures will light a fire in Galway this month - This is Galway
A fire will be lit in Galway this September as Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures returns for its seventh annual gathering. Find out more about the festival programme here...

Phase Transition for Stochastic Block Model with more than $\sqrt{n}$ Communities
Alexandra Carpentier, Christophe Giraud, Nicolas Verzelen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15822 http…

Phase Transition for Stochastic Block Model with more than $\sqrt{n}$ Communities
Predictions from statistical physics postulate that recovery of the communities in Stochastic Block Model (SBM) is possible in polynomial time above, and only above, the Kesten-Stigum (KS) threshold. This conjecture has given rise to a rich literature, proving that non-trivial community recovery is indeed possible in SBM above the KS threshold, as long as the number $K$ of communities remains smaller than $\sqrt{n}$, where $n$ is the number of nodes in the observed graph. Failure of low-degree …

Ontario is investing $400 million to help small, rural and Northern communities as part of the government’s more than $200 billion capital plan investing in key public infrastructure. That's 0.2%
Had they instead paid all their 99.8% bills with a MasterCard, the 0.5% cash-back would have given a full billion dollars to rural communities for free!
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006474/ontario-investing-in-local-infrastructure-to-support-small-rural-and-northern-communities

Designing AI-Infused Interactive Systems for Online Communities: A Systematic Literature Review
Yuanhao Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiaxiong Hu, Ziqi Pan, Zhenhui Peng, Xiaojuan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23309

Designing AI-Infused Interactive Systems for Online Communities: A Systematic Literature Review
AI-infused systems have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in addressing diverse human needs within online communities. Their widespread adoption has shaped user experiences and community dynamics at scale. However, designing such systems requires a clear understanding of user needs, careful design decisions, and robust evaluation. While research on AI-infused systems for online communities has flourished in recent years, a comprehensive synthesis of this space remains absent. In this work, w…

"On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which the federal government created to honour 'the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities,' members of the Active History editorial collective offer suggestions on scholarship and resources they have found helpful in their own work and learning journeys."

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report on the history of residential schools in Canada. Mandated to “inform all Canadians about what happened in reside…

Trump wants to axe an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-home-affordable-housing-cuts-rural-33a44092cfe5f8451e590e4a28718936
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p108#a250831p108

"Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. It is the lot of man – it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth" — Patrick Colquhoun, quoted by @…

On the Optimization of Methods for Establishing Well-Connected Communities
Mohammad Dindoost, Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez, Bartosz Bryg, Minhyuk Park, George Chacko, Tandy Warnow, David A. Bader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02590

On the Optimization of Methods for Establishing Well-Connected Communities
Community detection plays a central role in uncovering meso scale structures in networks. However, existing methods often suffer from disconnected or weakly connected clusters, undermining interpretability and robustness. Well-Connected Clusters (WCC) and Connectivity Modifier (CM) algorithms are post-processing techniques that improve the accuracy of many clustering methods. However, they are computationally prohibitive on massive graphs. In this work, we present optimized parallel implementat…

"Microplastics reduce soil fertility and boost production of a potent greenhouse gas, study shows"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Microplastics reduce soil fertility and boost production of a potent greenhouse gas, study shows
More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked eye. Microplastic pollution of the soil poses a severe threat to soil health as it can harm essential microbial communities and reduce crop yields. The presence of these tiny plastics may also worsen climate change by boosting the production of greenhouse gases, according to a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

The ripple effects of the federal raid have spread to at least a half dozen small businesses in the counties surrounding the metaplant, according to an investigation by The Current GA.
https://thecurrentga.org/2025/10/14/ice-raid-leaves-…

🪏 Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copper-rush-pushes-vale-to-ramp-up-mining-near-amazonian-protected-areas/

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
The metal needed in electric cars and solar panels comes with a high cost for Amazonian communities.

"...no deaths were tallied in Cuba, more than 735,000 evacuated residents slowly returned home as the military helped to rescue people in isolated communities."
Cuba has for years done an excellent job in protecting people from hurricanes. But the impacts will still be a huge challenge to the besieged island. #EndTheBlockade!
Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hur…

Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hurricane Melissa destruction
Recovery efforts are under way across Jamaica after Melissa rips off roofs, cuts electricity and unleashes floodwaters.

Heartbreaking. They’re barely recovering from Beryl. #HurricaneMelissa
https://abcnews.go.com/US/disastrous-images-emerge-jamaica…

Disastrous images emerge from Jamaica following direct hit by Hurricane Melissa
"Communities and towns no longer look the same," said the prime minister.

Guyana brings solar power to Indigenous village, part of larger plan to prioritize Amerindian communities in national development. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Guyana commissions solar grid for Indigenous village
A remote village in western Guyana is set to benefit from round the clock power following the commissioning of a solar grid with a combined capacity of 217.4 kW.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Stop Giving Harm a Microphone by Andrea Fomera
"But still, it’s caused me to want to withdraw myself and disengage in the communities I found purpose and belonging in. This is a direct consequence of giving microphones and amplifying the behavior of people who post their “opposing views” online and engage in bad faith arguments."
https://afomera.dev/posts/2025-10-25-stop-giving-harm-a-microphone

SF has so many parking lots and other soft sites especially on the westside, we should be building housing there instead of demolishing rent-controlled homes. But #SB79 offers few protections & none for rent-controlled duplexes. Sign this petition to amend the bill to fix this!
#SFPol

Amend SB 79 to Protect Tenants and Communities
SB 79 puts thousands of rent-controlled homes and small businesses in San Francisco at risk by allowing demolition without strong affordability requirements or local oversight. It overrides years of community planning and opens the door to displacement in working-class neighborhoods across San Francisco. Sign the petition to demand smart, equitable amendments that protect tenants, preserve local plans, and ensure transit-oriented development works for everyone.

This. 100% this: «…the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world. The global economy is far too big, it’s got to shrink, and it’s got to be distributed more equitably around the world.»
The problem is that even the politicians who understand this are helpless to do anything about it. We have surrendered our future to global corporations and the mega-rich and their hand-picked poli…

Elgin joins communities looking to ban use of their property for ICE activities
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251024/news/elgin-joins-communities-looking-to-ban-use-of-their-property-for-ice-activities/

"Revolutionary Study Shows Plants That Remove Microplastics Work Better Than Current Technology"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Revolutionary Study Shows Plants That Remove Microplastics Work Better Than Current Technology | Happy Eco News
Plants that remove microplastics from water could revolutionize treatment methods. Scientists discovered okra and fenugreek extracts capture up to 90% of plastic particles, outperforming synthetic chemicals. These natural, biodegradable alternatives cost less than industrial polymers while avoiding toxic additives, offering safer water treatment for communities worldwide.

Increasingly targeted in immigration raids
-- Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-communities-from-southern-mexico-refuse-to-bow-to-ice-in-california/…

Indigenous Communities From Southern Mexico Refuse to Bow to ICE in California
Increasingly targeted in immigration raids, Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.

PalmX 2025: The First Shared Task on Benchmarking LLMs on Arabic and Islamic Culture
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Hamdy Mubarak, Majd Hawasly, Abubakr Mohamed, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02550

PalmX 2025: The First Shared Task on Benchmarking LLMs on Arabic and Islamic Culture
Large Language Models (LLMs) inherently reflect the vast data distributions they encounter during their pre-training phase. As this data is predominantly sourced from the web, there is a high chance it will be skewed towards high-resourced languages and cultures, such as those of the West. Consequently, LLMs often exhibit a diminished understanding of certain communities, a gap that is particularly evident in their knowledge of Arabic and Islamic cultures. This issue becomes even more pronounce…

Coral: A Unifying Abstraction Layer for Composable Robotics Software
Steven Swanbeck, Mitch Pryor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02453 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Coral: A Unifying Abstraction Layer for Composable Robotics Software
Despite the multitude of excellent software components and tools available in the robotics and broader software engineering communities, successful integration of software for robotic systems remains a time-consuming and challenging task for users of all knowledge and skill levels. And with robotics software often being built into tightly coupled, monolithic systems, even minor alterations to improve performance, adjust to changing task requirements, or deploy to new hardware can require signif…

FalseCrashReducer: Mitigating False Positive Crashes in OSS-Fuzz-Gen Using Agentic AI
Paschal C. Amusuo, Dongge Liu, Ricardo Andres Calvo Mendez, Jonathan Metzman, Oliver Chang, James C. Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02185

FalseCrashReducer: Mitigating False Positive Crashes in OSS-Fuzz-Gen Using Agentic AI
Fuzz testing has become a cornerstone technique for identifying software bugs and security vulnerabilities, with broad adoption in both industry and open-source communities. Directly fuzzing a function requires fuzz drivers, which translate random fuzzer inputs into valid arguments for the target function. Given the cost and expertise required to manually develop fuzz drivers, methods exist that leverage program analysis and Large Language Models to automatically generate these drivers. However…

Hierarchical Single-Linkage Clustering for Community Detection with Overlaps and Outliers
Ryan DeWolfe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02334 https://arxiv.org/p…

Hierarchical Single-Linkage Clustering for Community Detection with Overlaps and Outliers
Most community detection approaches make very strong assumptions about communities in the data, such as every vertex must belong to exactly one community (the communities form a partition). For vector data, Hierarchical Density Based Spatial Clustering for Applications with Noise (HDBSCAN) has emerged as a leading clustering algorithm that allows for outlier points that do not belong to any cluster. The first step in HDBSCAN is to redefine the distance between vectors in such a way that single-…

Heterogeneity drives plasmid maintenance in large microbial communities
Johannes Nautaa, Kaitlin A. Schaal, Ying-Jie Wang, James P. J. Hall, Shai Pilosof, Manlio De Domenico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01695

Heterogeneity drives plasmid maintenance in large microbial communities
Microbiomes are complex systems comprised of many interacting species. Species can survive harsh or changing conditions by rapid adaptation, a process accelerated by the exchange of genetic material between different species through horizontal gene transfer. Conjugative plasmids are ubiquitous mobile genetic elements that mediate such exchanges both within and between species. Therefore, predicting whether a plasmid can invade and be maintained by a microbial community is critical, for example …

Meet Ziada Kassimu: a medical assistant doctor and climate activist in Tanzania working to empower women and girls through the REPower Afrika campaign. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

REpower Afrika: Ziada Kassimu
“Working with 350.org has been a joy, as it's not about words: it's about action. 350 takes action on moving communities away from fossil fuels, impacting their livelihoods and giving them opportunities to grow and speak for themselves”

Reporting shows reduced homelessness in communities throughout California (Marissasaldivar/Governor of California)
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/18/reporting-shows-reduced-homelessness-in-communities-throughout-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p122#a250818p122

Death Toll Rises From Hurricane Melissa as Many Communities Remain Cut off - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/americas/jamaica-hurricane-melissa-death-toll.html

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals #California

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals
Large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities across the United States not only unleash massive plumes of the potent greenhouse gas, but also carry a toxic mix of air pollutants that jeopardize the health of communities nearby, according to new research.

🍄 Subway station study reveals fungal communities
#subway

Subway station study reveals fungal communities
Subways don't just bring people together. They're also a hub of microbial activity, including fungi. Over the course of a year, an international team of researchers collected air samples from 15 stations in the Beijing subway network, one of the largest in the world, and cataloged the fungal species they found.

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
Sohyeon Hwang, Sophie Rollins, Thatiany Andrade Nunes, Yuhan Liu, Richmond Wong, Aaron Shaw, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19653

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops w…

Community Detection using Fortunato's Performance Measure
Srushti Thakar, Amit A. Nanavati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00938 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Community Detection using Fortunato's Performance Measure
In his paper on Community Detection [1], Fortunato introduced a quality function called performance to assess the goodness of a graph partition. This measure counts the number of correctly ``interpreted" pairs of vertices, i. e. two vertices belonging to the same community and connected by an edge, or two vertices belonging to different communities and not connected by an edge. In this paper, we explore Fortunato's performance measure (fp measure) for detecting communities in unweighted, undire…

Empowering students with clean energy education and hands-on experience in Indonesia. Meet Sutanpri, the headmaster leading the way towards a sustainable future. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

RESolusi network: Sutanpri
“Joining the RESolusi network has provided me with a platform to connect with other activists and groups working on climate and energy justice, and I have already learned so much from it! 350.org is always providing us with training and resources. It amplifies the voices of our communities and makes us stronger advocates too.”

Structured Interactions Drive Abrupt Transitions in the Spatial Organization of Microbial Communities
Mattia Mattei, David Soriano Pa\~nos, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Alex Arenas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01365

Structured Interactions Drive Abrupt Transitions in the Spatial Organization of Microbial Communities
Bacteria possess diverse mechanisms to regulate their motility in response to environmental and physiological signals, enabling them to navigate complex habitats and adapt their behavior. Among these mechanisms, interspecies recognition enables cells to modulate their movement based on the ecological identity of neighboring species. Here, we introduce a model in which we assume bacterial species recognizes each other and interact via local signals that either enhance or suppress the motility of…

Who Owns The Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Real World through Community Engagement
Minja Axelsson, Jiaee Cheong, Rune Nyrup, Hatice Gunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02624

Who Owns The Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Real World through Community Engagement
Recent studies indicate that robotic coaches can play a crucial role in promoting wellbeing. However, the real-world deployment of wellbeing robots raises numerous ethical and socio-technical questions and concerns. To explore these questions, we undertake a community-centered investigation to examine three different communities' perspectives on using robotic wellbeing coaches in real-world environments. We frame our work as an anticipatory ethical investigation, which we undertake to better in…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- Unpacking Musical Symbolism in Online Communities: Content-Based and Network-Centric Approaches
Kajwan Ziaoddini

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Climate Gentrification: The Hidden Costs of Disasters in Black Communities
https://chicagocrusader.com/climate-gentrification-hidden-costs-disasters-black-communities-climate/

Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
Hiroto Tsutsui, Takefumi Hiraki, Yuichi Hiroi, Shoichi Hasegawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23654

Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
This study quantitatively analyzes the structural characteristics of user communities within Social Virtual Reality (Social VR) platforms supporting head-mounted displays (HMDs), based on large-scale log data. By detecting and evaluating community structures from data on substantial interactions (defined as prolonged co-presence in the same virtual space), we found that Social VR platforms tend to host numerous, relatively small communities characterized by strong internal cohesion and limited …

Indian American communities and businesses grapple with Trump's tariffs (Juhi Doshi/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/indian-american-communities-businesses-grapple-trumps-tariffs-rcna230791
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p13#a250914p13

I remember my grandma taking me and my brother to see a movie at the Fox Bay when I was little. It's sad to see it go.
#WhitefishBay #FoxBay #Milwaukee

Nearly 200 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) signed an extraordinary letter sent to Congress on August 25,
denouncing the current administration’s erosion of their work
and warning that it risks the occurrence of another Hurricane Katrina-sized disaster.
More than 30 provided their names; the rest signed anonymously.
Named the "Katrina Declaration",
the letter was one of the most powerful written so far by beleaguered federal …

FEMA Employees Speak Out After Attacks on Workers Warning of Looming Disaster
“The danger posed to our collective communities … is very real,” said one employee who signed a public letter.

🖐️ EPA delay threatens fenceline communities near steel and coke plants, report warns
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/08/steel-plants-fenceline-air-pollution-epa-rules/

EPA delay threatens fenceline communities near steel and coke plants, report warns
By Brian Bienkowski Steel and coke plants in the US are regularly releasing illegal amounts of air pollutants and the Trump administration’s delay on stricter rules at these plants leaves fenceline communities struggling for long-sought federal help, according to a new report. 

FTSCommDetector: Discovering Behavioral Communities through Temporal Synchronization
Tianyang Luo, Xikun Zhang, Dongjin Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00014 https://

FTSCommDetector: Discovering Behavioral Communities through Temporal Synchronization
Why do trillion-dollar tech giants AAPL and MSFT diverge into different response patterns during market disruptions despite identical sector classifications? This paradox reveals a fundamental limitation: traditional community detection methods fail to capture synchronization-desynchronization patterns where entities move independently yet align during critical moments. To this end, we introduce FTSCommDetector, implementing our Temporal Coherence Architecture (TCA) to discover similar and diss…

"Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, Dan Jurafsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395 h…

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolated media reports of severe consequences, like reinforcing delusions, little is known about the extent of sycophancy or how it affects people who use AI. Here we show the pervasiveness and harmful impacts of sycophancy when people seek advice from AI. First, across 11 state-of-the-art AI models, we …

"After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors"
#US #USA #America

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

Protecting the Amazon: Indigenous voices leading the way in the fight against climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Voices from the land: Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon (commentary)
This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world. Through these commentaries, we share our lived realities and reflections on urgent issues shaping our time — environmental destruction, our relationship with nature, and systemic injustice. We write from the heart of our communities, where […]

🕶️ Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
#vr

Community Analysis of Social Virtual Reality Based on Large-Scale Log Data of a Commercial Metaverse Platform
This study quantitatively analyzes the structural characteristics of user communities within Social Virtual Reality (Social VR) platforms supporting head-mounted displays (HMDs), based on large-scale log data. By detecting and evaluating community structures from data on substantial interactions (defined as prolonged co-presence in the same virtual space), we found that Social VR platforms tend to host numerous, relatively small communities characterized by strong internal cohesion and limited …

Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-tennessee-america-hud-kentucky-b2817204.html

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors - Inside Climate News
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance—and its push away from science. As part of the overarching defunding of science […]

Burst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities
Yutong Zhang, Taeuk Kang, Sydney Yeh, Anavi Baddepudi, Lindsay Popowski, Tiziano Piccardi, Michael S. Bernstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19768

Burst: Collaborative Curation in Connected Social Media Communities
Positive social interactions can occur in groups of many shapes and sizes, spanning from small and private to large and open. However, social media tends to binarize our experiences into either isolated small groups or into large public squares. In this paper, we introduce Burst, a social media design that allows users to share and curate content between many spaces of varied size and composition. Users initially post content to small trusted groups, who can then burst that content, routing it …

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Unpacking Musical Symbolism in Online Communities: Content-Based and Network-Centric Approaches
Kajwan Ziaoddini

AmeriCorps is under siege. What happens in the communities it serves? • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/15/repub/americorps-is-under-siege-what-happens-in-the-communities-it-serves/

Green spaces are essential for marginalized communities to combat record heat. Addressing inequities in cooling technologies is crucial for well-being during extreme heat events. #climatechange #climatesolutions

"Green Spaces Are Key To Combating Record Heat In Marginalized Communities"
"Keith Lambert and his family cope with the extreme heat of summertime Chicago by going in and out of their house as quickly as possible and making sure their insulated shades are always drawn."