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It's Isaiah Martin, and the countdown is at 82 days until my special election.
Two huge updates for you.
#1: It's official, we kicked the hive, so MAGA has put in a handpicked Trumpster to run against me.
💥But getting arrested didn't scare me, so their lackey doesn't either.
They won't steal this seat in Congress from the people.
#2 Last night we hosted a town hall with over 11,000 people in attendance.
💥Momentum is building, and we c…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.

Astrophysical or Terrestrial: Machine learning classification of gravitational-wave candidates using multiple-search information
Seiya Tsukamoto, Andrew Toivonen, Holton Griffin, Avyukt Raghuvanshi, Megan Averill, Frank Kerkow, Michael W. Coughlin, Man Leong Chan, Leo Singer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14242…

Astrophysical or Terrestrial: Machine learning classification of gravitational-wave candidates using multiple-search information
Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts provide the greater multi-messenger community with information about the candidate events detected by the International Gravitational-Wave Network (IGWN). Prompt release of data products such as the sky localization, false alarm rate (FAR), and $p_\mathrm{astro}$ values allow astronomers to make informed decisions on which candidate gravitational-wave events merit target of opportunity (ToO) follow-up. However, false alarms, often referred to as "glitches",…

For the toot.community branding, I illustrated two Elephants with their trunks entwined producing a musical note together. This communicates the community values of respect and open dialogue, and their motto "Be excellent to each other!"
#Branding #Design #Mastodon #TootCommunity #Logo

Infrastructuring Contestability: A Framework for Community-Defined AI Value Pluralism
Andreas Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05187 https://

Infrastructuring Contestability: A Framework for Community-Defined AI Value Pluralism
The proliferation of AI-driven systems presents a fundamental challenge to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), often diminishing user agency and failing to account for value pluralism. Current approaches to value alignment, which rely on centralized, top-down definitions, lack the mechanisms for meaningful contestability. This leaves users and communities unable to challenge or shape the values embedded in the systems that govern their digital lives,…

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
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From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Principles for Environmental Justice in Technology: Toward a Regenerative Future
Sanjana Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09007 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0…

Principles for Environmental Justice in Technology: Toward a Regenerative Future
This paper introduces the Environmental Justice in Technology (EJIT) Principles, a framework to help reorient technological development toward social and ecological justice and collective flourishing. In response to prevailing models of technological innovation that prioritize speed, scale, and profit while neglecting systemic injustice, the EJIT principles offer an alternative: a set of guiding values that foreground interdependence, repair, and community self-determination. Drawing inspiratio…

I never thought I'd be proud to have been arrested.
But I also never thought that I'd be in a situation where the President of the United States is trying to make questionably legal power grabs.
He knows if he loses Congress, it's over.
It's Isaiah Martin,
and my election isn't in a year,
it's in 89 days,
which means vote by mail ballots are coming sooner than later.
First and foremost, thank you for your support.
I…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.

The Vertex-Attribute-Constrained Densest $k$-Subgraph Problem
Qiheng Lu, Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos, Aritra Konar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06655 https://ar…

The Vertex-Attribute-Constrained Densest $k$-Subgraph Problem
Dense subgraph mining is a fundamental technique in graph mining, commonly applied in fraud detection, community detection, product recommendation, and document summarization. In such applications, we are often interested in identifying communities, recommendations, or summaries that reflect different constituencies, styles or genres, and points of view. For this task, we introduce a new variant of the Densest $k$-Subgraph (D$k$S) problem that incorporates the attribute values of vertices. The …

Sampling (noisy) quantum circuits through randomized rounding
Victor Martinez, Omar Fawzi, Daniel Stilck Fran\c{c}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21883 https://

Sampling (noisy) quantum circuits through randomized rounding
The present era of quantum processors with hundreds to thousands of noisy qubits has sparked interest in understanding the computational power of these devices and how to leverage it to solve practically relevant problems. For applications that require estimating expectation values of observables the community developed a good understanding of how to simulate them classically and denoise them. Certain applications, like combinatorial optimization, however demand more than expectation values: th…

The Gaia RVS Benchmark Stars. III . Confirmed and New High Radial Velocity Stars From Gaia DR3
Elisabetta Caffau (LIRA), David Katz (LIRA), Piercarlo Bonifacio (LIRA), Ana G\'omez (LIRA), Rosine Lallement (LIRA), Paola Sartoretti (UNIDIA), Fr\'ed\'eric Royer (LIRA), Pasquale Panuzzo (UNIDIA, PISI), Monique Spite (LIRA), Patrick Fran\c{c}ois (LIRA), Nicolas Leclerc (UNIDIA), Luca Sbordone (ESO), Fr\'ed\'eric Th\'evenin (LSW), Hans-g\"unter Ludwig (LSW), Laur…

The Gaia RVS Benchmark Stars. III . Confirmed and New High Radial Velocity Stars From Gaia DR3
High-velocity stars are interesting targets to unveil the formation of the Milky Way. In fact they can be recently accreted from an infalling dwarf galaxies or they can be the result of a turbulent merging of galaxies. Gaia is providing the community a way to select stars for their kinematics and the radial velocity, one of the speed components, is derived from the Gaia RVS spectrum. High absolute radial velocity values are sensitive to be false positive. They are rare and as such they are more…

The final solution of the Hitchhiker's problem #5
Matja\v{z} Omladi\v{c}, Martin Vuk, Alja\v{z} Zalar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20672 https://

The final solution of the Hitchhiker's problem #5
A recent survey, nicknamed "Hitchhiker's Guide", J.J. Arias-Garcıa, R. Mesiar, and B. De Baets, A hitchhiker's guide to quasi-copulas, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 393 (2020) 1-28, has raised the rating of quasi-copula problems in the dependence modeling community in spite of the lack of statistical interpretation of quasi-copulas. In our previous work (arXiv:2410.19339, accepted in Fuzzy Sets and Systems), we addressed the question of extreme values of the mass distribution associated with multivar…

Why aren't I seeing every Democrat in congress on TV right now talking about this insane budget bill⁉️
It's Isaiah Martin
- and I think we need more Democrats with spines in Congress.
I know everyone is texting you right now, but my special election to fill a critical blue seat in Congress is⭐️ in just a few months - not a year and a half.
As a grassroots zero corporate dollar candidate, I need folks like you to come through for me.
It's our end o…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.

One week ago MAGA threw me in jail
for speaking out against their gerrymandering plan
to hand Trump more control.
Gov. Gavin Newsome, Joy-Ann Reid, and even People.com told the world to pay attention.
The time for strongly worded letters is over.
We must meet this moment,
and that means electing leaders who are willing to get arrested to stop Trump's tyranny.
I'd do it again for the people of Texas.
I'm running for congress in a…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.