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X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string.
This technique could enable the rapid deployment of a temporary field hospital at the site of a disaster such as a devastating tsunami
— a situation where quick medical action is essential to save lives.
The researchers’ approach converts a user-specified 3D structure into a flat s…

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures
MIT researchers developed a method that converts a user’s design into a flat series of interconnected tiles that can be converted to a 3D structure with one pull of a single string.

Folks who have successfully bootstrapped a complex open source project from a solo endeavor with occasional third part PRs up to something with multiple core developers and lots of more casual contributors: how do you handle the balancing act between conflicting responsibilities?
I'm sitting on top of 250K lines of complex multi threaded C and GLSL HPC code in ngscopeclient and it's been a constant struggle to clean up decade old technical debt to make it easier for new devs …

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

I've been playing a few of those Lego games (Lego Star Wars etc.) with my little one. It's fun though navigating 3D space while handling the camera is a lot for him (it _is_ not easy).
Sometimes I try to tell him where to go when he gets lost but it's really challenging to stay patient at times (because it's hard for him to translate the words into the complex actions necessary and because I don't want to do things for him while he's trying things). But it's…

#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Oct
How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
In my fantasy stories, the Great Place is a very complex theocracy; the Coast has a broadly communistic peasantry with superstructures of a capitalist urban merchant class and a autocratic aristocracy; the Western Clans are a tribal society which is broadly communist; the Wild Herd are a puritanical mat…

But the flavor is a bit more complex, with floral undertones, hints of cucumber, and a bitterness that, mixed with the somewhat slick mouthfeel of the spirit, reminded us of soap.

""Het ligt aan ons", zegt een woordvoerder namens de stroomleveranciers [sic! dit moet netbeheerders zijn]. "We nemen de kritiek ter harte. De implementatie van flexibel gebruik van het net is niet zo snel gegaan als gedacht. We hebben niet goed ingeschat hoe complex dit zou zijn.""

Beheerders bekennen schuld over overvolle stroomnetten: 'Het ligt aan ons'
De Autoriteit Consument & Markt zegt dat netbeheerders niet genoeg hebben gedaan om netcongestie tegen te gaan. De branche neemt de kritiek 'ter harte'.

#pywikibot looks very useful and can definitely mitigiate some pain one might have interacting with the mediawiki api. But wow, it appears almost as complex and the docs are equally labyrinthine 🤯
#mediawiki

There is nothing as cursed as gradual text rendering with complex formatting. It makes me want to eat a plateful of hornets

You asked AI and did exactly what it told you to do. It seemed to work, but nobody knows why. The Claude giveth and the Claude taketh away.
You mutter about software stacks written with AI that have grown too complex to understand in the estimated time on the ticket, as you push the branch and raise the PR.
The reviewer will use AI to check it, and the QA team will surely do some coverage tests. Nothing gets by them and their fancy AI tooling.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- The Waltz Paradox
John Suchet draws on many stories to unlock the complex makeup of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II, in his 200th anniversary year.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l09v

Migrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining & thoroughly demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.
Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thin…

Tackling complex tasks can feel like taming chaos, but classical music is a brilliant remedy. A well-composed symphony turns chaos into clarity. 🎻 Personally, it elevates my focus and productivity. Do you harness music to boost your performance? 🎶 Let's orchestrate success with the right rhythm!

Inside the deportation machine (giftlink)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/trump-immigration-deportation-network-ice-arrests.html?unlocked_art…

The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

“Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex” An interview on reconstruction risks by @…: https://www.

Interview: On data protection risks with medical research data
Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex. An interview on reconstruction risks.

#CensorshipIndustrialComplex
If you know any European legislators or govt. officials, check in with them and make sure they are aware of this. https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a…

🎬 Rich actions with confirmation dialogs, onSuccess & onError callbacks
👁️ Conditional visibility based on data, auth, or complex logic
📦 Two packages: @.json-render/core (types, schemas) @.json-render/react (renderer, hooks)
🔧 Schema definition with #Zod for type-safe component props
📤 Export as standalone

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement https://www.socialifeoflaw.com/post/disruptive-mobilities-unsettling-law-space-and-identities-through-movement

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

I’ve been using Telex to build #WordPress plugins right in the browser, and it makes the whole process surprisingly simple.
https://josvelasco.com/simplifying-wor

QB Stock Market Week 12: Does Sam Darnold Have a Big-Game Complex? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-12-does-sam-darnold-have-big-game-complex

Optical kernel machine with programmable nonlinearity
SeungYun Han, Fei Xia, Sylvain Gigan, Bruno Loureiro, Hui Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17880 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17880
arXiv:2511.17880v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Optical kernel machines offer high throughput and low latency. A nonlinear optical kernel can handle complex nonlinear data, but power consumption is typically high with the conventional nonlinear optical approach. To overcome this issue, we present an optical kernel with structural nonlinearity that can be continuously tuned at low power. It is implemented in a linear optical scattering cavity with a reconfigurable micro-mirror array. By tuning the degree of nonlinearity with multiple scattering, we vary the kernel sensitivity and information capacity. We further optimize the kernel nonlinearity to best approximate the parity functions from first order to fifth order for binary inputs. Our scheme offers potential applicability across photonic platforms, providing programmable kernels with high performance and low power consumption.
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collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-cowork-for-claude-complex-action…

Claude Cowork automates complex tasks for you now - at your own risk
Available first to Claude Max subscribers, the research preview empowers Anthropic's chatbot to handle complex tasks.

#nytimes #report #usapol
"Inside the Deportation Machine"
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"At least 32 people have died in ICE custody since Mr. Trump took office, more than the number in Mr. Biden’s entire…

The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

🥼 Room-temperature RNA detection method eliminates need for complex lab equipment
#rna …

Room-temperature RNA detection method eliminates need for complex lab equipment
A new method to detect ribonucleic acid (RNA) without needing any complex lab procedures or heating equipment has been developed by researchers at UConn Health.

I still need to spend more time learning TrueNAS and how to get container applications running properly. It's much more complex than OpenMediaVault.
Some applications do just work, but many seem to need a lot more care and configuration to get working as desired.
#trueNaS #selfHosting

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

An absolutely extraordinary look at how to improve rendering of ASCII art, first in static images, then in motion. As he gets into contrast enhancement for complex grayscale animations, the vector lookup works starts to be parallel to work happening with language models. Just an excellent narration. https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-…

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

Hubble Reveals Complex Multiscale Structure in the Edge-on #Protoplanetary Disk IRAS23077 6707: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae247f -> NASA’s Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-reveals-largest-found-chaotic-birthplace-of-planets/

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World
This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat int…

Nostrshire panel talking about Adam Curry's podcast2.0 , more tags in your podcast rss for payments, in the hope it can fund producers. Did you know besos takes 75 percent of all Audible money? Actors and writers sharing scraps from Amazon's table.
Hot news is that keysend tags are out of fashion and the bolt11 lnurl invoices are taking over.
Podcast platforms can be bridged through nostr to enable cross platform comments and discovery but making users create key pairs is to complex the fountainfm guy reckons. Wants to hide and shatter l abstract away that complexity.
#nostr #nostrshire #podcasting2.0

So I think about one of the central thesis of Joseph Weizenbaum a lot.
It’s essentially an extension of “there’s no technical solutions to social problems”; it posits that computers are widely used to immortalize and amplify social problems while preventing reforms.
And it has gotten much worse since he wrote about this in the 1970s.
Two of the examples he gives are nation/world-wide stock exchanges and automated trading (lead to wealth concentration and gambling), as well as highly complex but wasteful, punishing and unfair welfare systems (instead of e.g. UBI).

Classifying Complex Dynamical and Stochastic Systems via Physics-Based Recurrence Features
J. V. M. Silveira, H. C. Costa, G. S. Spezzatto, T. L. Prado, S. R. Lopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19731

War porn beats out Venezuela peace messages in DC Metro
#WMATA

War porn beats out Venezuela peace messages in DC Metro
As arms contractors blanket WMATA stations with ads, an anti-war group’s message was rejected under rules that favor the military industrial complex

just in case anyone is interested in how to do complex linear algebra, including complex tensor products, without using complex numbers - using real linear operators \(J\) with \(J\circ J=-I\) instead of complex scalars - here are some links.  
The TLDR version on a poster:
http://mwaa.math.indianapolis.iu.ed…

Experimental insights into data augmentation techniques for deep learning-based multimode fiber imaging: limitations and success
Jawaria Maqbool, M. Imran Cheema
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19072 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19072
arXiv:2511.19072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimode fiber~(MMF) imaging using deep learning has high potential to produce compact, minimally invasive endoscopic systems. Nevertheless, it relies on large, diverse real-world medical data, whose availability is limited by privacy concerns and practical challenges. Although data augmentation has been extensively studied in various other deep learning tasks, it has not been systematically explored for MMF imaging. This work provides the first in-depth experimental and computational study on the efficacy and limitations of augmentation techniques in this field. We demonstrate that standard image transformations and conditional generative adversarial-based synthetic speckle generation fail to improve, or even deteriorate, reconstruction quality, as they neglect the complex modal interference and dispersion that results in speckle formation. To address this, we introduce a physical data augmentation method in which only organ images are digitally transformed, while their corresponding speckles are experimentally acquired via fiber. This approach preserves the physics of light-fiber interaction and enhances the reconstruction structural similarity index measure~(SSIM) by up to 17\%, forming a viable system for reliable MMF imaging under limited data conditions.
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Exploiting ID-Text Complementarity via Ensembling for Sequential Recommendation
Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Clark Mingxuan Ju, Tong Zhao, Donald Loveland, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17820 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17820 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17820
arXiv:2512.17820v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern Sequential Recommendation (SR) models commonly utilize modality features to represent items, motivated in large part by recent advancements in language and vision modeling. To do so, several works completely replace ID embeddings with modality embeddings, claiming that modality embeddings render ID embeddings unnecessary because they can match or even exceed ID embedding performance. On the other hand, many works jointly utilize ID and modality features, but posit that complex fusion strategies, such as multi-stage training and/or intricate alignment architectures, are necessary for this joint utilization. However, underlying both these lines of work is a lack of understanding of the complementarity of ID and modality features. In this work, we address this gap by studying the complementarity of ID- and text-based SR models. We show that these models do learn complementary signals, meaning that either should provide performance gain when used properly alongside the other. Motivated by this, we propose a new SR method that preserves ID-text complementarity through independent model training, then harnesses it through a simple ensembling strategy. Despite this method's simplicity, we show it outperforms several competitive SR baselines, implying that both ID and text features are necessary to achieve state-of-the-art SR performance but complex fusion architectures are not.
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China's MiniMax releases M2.1, an upgrade to its open-source M2 model that it says has "significantly enhanced" coding capabilities in Rust, Java, and others (MiniMax)
https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m21

MiniMax M2.1: Significantly Enhanced Multi-Language Programming, Built for Real-World Complex Tasks - MiniMax News

Based on another report I just read from Iran's PressTV (state-sponsored service with an expired encryption cert today), this sounds like a giant DDoS attack.
Iran says repelled ‘one of world’s most complex’ cyberattacks on national infrastructure
https://

Iran Says Repelled ‘one Of World’s Most Complex’ Cyberattacks On National Infrastructure - Iran Front Page
Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology said the country faced “one of the most complex cyberattacks” globally in recent days, targeting critical infrastructure linked to a domestic telecom operator.

Tons of updates to my CM tool:
* An agent for continuous management with fast-monitoring features
* JSON Schemas for editors
* Manifests and Hiera now support HTTP(s)
* ccm extendible with appbuilder for custom UIs around manifests (no code needed)
* Pre-, Post-messages to help users use things they installed
* Generic if / unless on every resource
* New docs
Focus is to excel at adhoc, snow flakes, devel VMs, a la carte CM etc, place where other too…

It’s strange thinking about how much pain I’ve grown to accept and have just learned to live with.
I love writing by hand too much to give it up - with my ADHD it helps me focus, remember thins better, think through complex ideas. Journaling has been a great way to manage my mental illnesses. I love paper, I love collecting notebooks.
Not to mention that I am a hobbyist artist and draw on a regular basis. (Somehow that has been less painful for me than writing… but if writing cramped my hand then drawing would be agonizing too and I’d have to take weeks off on a nearly constant basis).
So suddenly purchasing a new kind of pen and realizing it MADE THE PAIN DISAPPEAR feels like magic. I literally feel less disabled.
I just wish I bought a fountain pen years ago 😅

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson plans to invest $124M on venue space and a production campus in Louisiana; the state agreed to provide $50M in infrastructure funding (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

50 Cent’s Studio Plans $124 Million Investment In Louisiana Complex
The 'Power' producer's G-Unit Film & Television has finalized a deal with the state on a development plan for three entertainment venues.

You know, the Climate Skeptics got it partly right. But they missed the fact that the situation is worse than predicted. The #ClimateModels haven't really understood the complex, interacting impacts of the #ClimateCrisis. They are worse and more diverse and happening faster than expected.…

You know, the Climate Skeptics got it partly right. But they missed the fact that the situation is worse than predicted. The #ClimateModels haven't really understood the complex, interacting impacts of the #ClimateCrisis. They are worse and more diverse and happening faster than expected.…

Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming "still-evolving and complex business terms" (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/setapp-mobile-eu-app…

MacPaw Pulls Plug on Setapp Mobile iOS Store, Citing 'Still-Evolving and Complex Business Terms' for...
Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month. The...

»In the old days, technical writers produced documentation in near isolation, surrounded by complex and similarly isolated corporate cultures. From an anthropological perspective, old manuals are like tribal artefacts. The resulting docs show surprisingly rich design and content patterns, more refreshing than we’re used to in the age of googling for Stack Exchange questions and of bowing to Stripe docs.«

The news is a lot more surreal if you choose to read "the Pentagon" as being some dimension-straddling eldritch entity that casts a pentagonal shadow into our realm rather than a boring metonym for the intelligence-military complex

💓 Are We Really Training at the Desired Intensity? Concurrent Validity of 16 Commercial Photoplethysmography-Based Heart Rate Monitors
#heart

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

On the subject of joys and problems of fieldwork, flight to Antarctica delayed by 24 hours.
At least I'll be able to clear my inbox I suppose ..
#iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:  
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

How do we create real, lasting change in some of the biggest/most complex systems in our world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOH4VDHwmsY

Lost Sisters Found - TESS and Gaia Reveal a Dissolving #Pleiades Complex: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0724 -> The “Seven Sisters” Just Found Thousands of Long-Lost Siblings / The Pleiades is part of an enormous stellar complex birthed by the same star-forming event: https://uncnews.unc.edu/2025/11/12/the-seven-sisters-just-found-thousands-of-long-lost-siblings/ / https://carnegiescience.edu/pleiades-part-enormous-stellar-complex-birthed-same-star-forming-event

The Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
https://ift.tt/2SG9CiQ
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/banned-for-years-dangerous-pesticides-persist-in-nigerian-farming/

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming
The sun rises over lush farm fields of on the outskirts of Lagos. For more than 20 years, a farmer named Joe has tilled the land, coaxing life from the earth and reaping bountiful harvests. But here, beneath the surface of this idyllic scene, lies a complex web of challenges — chief among them, the […]

Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…

There is a massive focus on trying to get Open Source software to the point where governments or big corporations can use them to "increase sovereignty" (which sometimes means a bit of a weird mix of things).
But that can lead to software being pushed towards more and more complex architectures and deployment strategies (think something like a simple collaborative editor needing Kubernetes to be deployable). While governments and certain companies might be able to shoulder tha…

oooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…

I'm no fan of the the U.S. prison industrial complex or its justice system, but I can't help but think how much better the world would be now if they'd just locked Tim Allen away for life all those years ago

Someone built an indexed & vectorized index & a conversational AI for the Epstein Files.
Never mind Qs like "How many times was Trump mentioned?" Try asking it complex tasks & questions that require intelligent reasoning like, "Is there any evidence..."
https://epstein.trynia.ai/

Finished "Dissolution" by Nicholas Binge.
An elderly couple, Stanley & Maggie, are coping with his deteriorating memory, for which he's living in a care facility. A strange visitor credibly claims the home is responsible for removing his memories, and that Stanley's mind holds a secret that will save the world from imminent destruction.
A cat & mouse game ensues across time, memory, and featuring a deliciously evil character. Complex!
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Dissolution
A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a …

from my link log —
capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities.
https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
saved 2025-12-12

Replaced article(s) found for nlin.CD. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.CD/new
[1/1]:
- Complex multiannual cycles of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: persistence and the role of stochasticity
Nielsen, Park, Howerton, Lorentzen, Jensen, Grenfell

Exactly where it belongs. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115699073964279612

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL that Hitler’s bunker in Berlin is now under a gravel parking lot for an apartment complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pjnwk5/til_that_hitlers_bunker_in_berlin_is_now_under_a/

The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual delivery" of a digital asset, aiming to support broader access to regulated crypto markets (Micah Zimmerman/Bitcoin Magazine)
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/cftc-scraps-overly-complex-crypto-rul…

CFTC Cuts ‘Outdated And Overly Complex’ Crypto Guidance
The CFTC is withdrawing outdated crypto delivery guidance, paving the way for updated rules amid expanding oversight.

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
https://ift.tt/erHdv35
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

After Kyiv’s uncrewed fleet succeeded in curbing the movements of Russia’s once-dominant Black Sea navy
The commander of sea-drone operations for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency
says more complex strikes against Russian forces are expected next year
In an interview with The Associated Press, the head of the specialized maritime drone unit, Group 13,
said Ukraine’s attacks have forced Russia to adapt,
limiting opportunities for major Black Sea strikes seen…

Ukraine's sea drone commander says AI targeting will add pressure on Russia
A top Ukrainian sea-drone commander says more complex attacks on Russian forces are expected next year as Kyiv’s uncrewed fleet continues to restrict the once-dominant Black Sea navy. The officer, known as “13th,” told The Associated Press that Russia has adapted by keeping ships in port and operating at greater distances, reducing opportunities for high-profile strikes. The defense intelligence agency's Group 13 operates Magura drones that have played a key role in limiting Russian movem…

Watch out for illegal downloads of One Battle After Another
Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/fake-leonardo-dicaprio-movie-torrent-ag…

Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
Bitdefender researchers investigate a complex infection chain embedded in a fake movie torrent for One Battle After Another.

Good article, makes you think 🤔
"How AI Destroys Institutions"
#ai

I like when people get in touch with me about interesting projects but not when it's super-complex and they would "ideally like it done by the first week of December" because there's no way that is happening.

There's actually a lot we don't talk about related to cars and the military industrial complex. My point that internal combustion engines align the citizens and the military (by forcing citizens to rely on the critical resource at the center or the military industrial complex) remains evergreen. But people also generally don't realize that the manufacturing infrastructure of cars is fungible, and can be shifted to aircraft and tanks when needed.
Car manufacturing capabilities are intimately related to militarism in a way that bicycles aren't. That's also worth thinking about.

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

So I somewhat blindly guessed that the "PCIe" address space block contained a PCIe Base Spec compliant configuration register space starting at base address 0x00.
I'm now printing a bunch of info about the root complex which seems plausible. But I need to figure out how to enumerate the link partner still.

Can You Hear Me Now? A Benchmark for Long-Range Graph Propagation
Luca Miglior, Matteo Tolloso, Alessio Gravina, Davide Bacciu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17762
arXiv:2512.17762v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Effectively capturing long-range interactions remains a fundamental yet unresolved challenge in graph neural network (GNN) research, critical for applications across diverse fields of science. To systematically address this, we introduce ECHO (Evaluating Communication over long HOps), a novel benchmark specifically designed to rigorously assess the capabilities of GNNs in handling very long-range graph propagation. ECHO includes three synthetic graph tasks, namely single-source shortest paths, node eccentricity, and graph diameter, each constructed over diverse and structurally challenging topologies intentionally designed to introduce significant information bottlenecks. ECHO also includes two real-world datasets, ECHO-Charge and ECHO-Energy, which define chemically grounded benchmarks for predicting atomic partial charges and molecular total energies, respectively, with reference computations obtained at the density functional theory (DFT) level. Both tasks inherently depend on capturing complex long-range molecular interactions. Our extensive benchmarking of popular GNN architectures reveals clear performance gaps, emphasizing the difficulty of true long-range propagation and highlighting design choices capable of overcoming inherent limitations. ECHO thereby sets a new standard for evaluating long-range information propagation, also providing a compelling example for its need in AI for science.
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Exploring scientific realms is like uncovering the universe's complex blueprint. Each discovery deepens our understanding of our world. 🌌🔍 What recent advancements have piqued your interest? Let's embark on this #DiscoveryJourney together to expand our knowledge. #ScienceIsAwesome #CuriousMinds

Mit Orzo perlato, Sellerieknöllchen, weißen Bohnen und etwas Stängelkohl als Substitutionssubstanzen. Let this be recommended. #nommention
https://<…

Chickpea Stew With Orzo and Mustard Greens Recipe (Gift Recipe)
A complex and colorful chickpea stew, this is rich with vegetables, olive oil and Parmesan cheese. You can vary the vegetables to use what you’ve got. Here, I keep to the basics, adding carrots for sweetness, fennel or celery for depth, cherry tomatoes for looks. Tender greens, wilted into the bubbling mixture at the end, are optional, but they do add a bright, almost herbal note. I particularly love using baby mustard greens, which are pleasantly peppery. But spinach, arugula and kale work w…

🔪 Mexico, a country caught between mafias
#mexico

Mexico, a country caught between mafias
The murders of the Uruapan mayor and the leader of the lemon growers’ guild in Michoacán reveal a paradigm shift in organized crime, where complex extortion schemes have taken over entire regions

Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages (Mistral AI)
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

Introducing Mistral OCR 3 | Mistral AI
Achieving a new frontier for both accuracy and efficiency in document processing.

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise.
#AI #finance #nyt

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.

The Trump administration is today’s comprehensive belittler of conservative ideas.
Its solicitude for “conservative ideas” will not encompass this one:
-- Many things are beyond government’s proper scope and actual competence.
Watching today’s politics toy with an institution of MIT’s complexity and importance is like watching a toddler play with Sèvres porcela

Let’s take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump’s blunderbuss
It’s alarming to see such a complex, important institution subject to the whims of today’s politics.

As TSMC readies its €10B Germany plant for 2027, its Taiwanese suppliers say they're struggling with the EU's complex permitting, labor, and environmental rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technol

Europe’s Chip Dreams Confront Business Realities
European chipmakers need TSMC’s help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant’s Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough place to do business.

Spatially-informed transformers: Injecting geostatistical covariance biases into self-attention for spatio-temporal forecasting
Yuri Calleo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17696 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17696 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17696
arXiv:2512.17696v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The modeling of high-dimensional spatio-temporal processes presents a fundamental dichotomy between the probabilistic rigor of classical geostatistics and the flexible, high-capacity representations of deep learning. While Gaussian processes offer theoretical consistency and exact uncertainty quantification, their prohibitive computational scaling renders them impractical for massive sensor networks. Conversely, modern transformer architectures excel at sequence modeling but inherently lack a geometric inductive bias, treating spatial sensors as permutation-invariant tokens without a native understanding of distance. In this work, we propose a spatially-informed transformer, a hybrid architecture that injects a geostatistical inductive bias directly into the self-attention mechanism via a learnable covariance kernel. By formally decomposing the attention structure into a stationary physical prior and a non-stationary data-driven residual, we impose a soft topological constraint that favors spatially proximal interactions while retaining the capacity to model complex dynamics. We demonstrate the phenomenon of ``Deep Variography'', where the network successfully recovers the true spatial decay parameters of the underlying process end-to-end via backpropagation. Extensive experiments on synthetic Gaussian random fields and real-world traffic benchmarks confirm that our method outperforms state-of-the-art graph neural networks. Furthermore, rigorous statistical validation confirms that the proposed method delivers not only superior predictive accuracy but also well-calibrated probabilistic forecasts, effectively bridging the gap between physics-aware modeling and data-driven learning.
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collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Is #AI really just dumb statistics? "Olympiad-level physics problem-solving presents a significant challenge for both humans and artificial intelligence (AI), as it requires a sophisticated integration of precise calculation, abstract reasoning, and a fundamental grasp of physical principles," says the (abstract of the) paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10515: "The Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), renowned for its complexity and depth, serves as an ideal and rigorous testbed for these advanced capabilities. In this paper, we introduce LOCA-R (LOgical Chain Augmentation for Reasoning), an improved version of the LOCA framework adapted for complex reasoning, and apply it to the CPhO 2025 theory examination. LOCA-R achieves a near-perfect score of 313 out of 320 points, solidly surpassing the highest-scoring human competitor and significantly outperforming all baseline methods." Oops ...?

Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy

Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-…

“In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel, and Europe;
they do not want our country to stand on its own feet,”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with the Supreme Leader’s official website.
He said the current war is worse than the Iraq war in the 1980s.
“If one understands it properly,
this war is far more complex and more difficult than that war.”
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear;
the…

Iran says it is in full-scale war with US, Israel and Europe
Iran’s president said on Saturday the country is facing a full-scale confrontation with the United States, Israel, and Europe, describing the pressure campaign against Tehran as more complex and damaging than the Iran–Iraq war.

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/mi

Micron breaks ground on massive chipmaking plant that could transform Central NY
The project could be the largest private investment in New York state history.

As #Crew11 prepares to depart from the space station, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke just handed command of Expedition 74 aboard the orbital complex to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqvpXwHTztY

Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/12/16/sequence-20-million-re…

Exclusive: Sequence raises $20M to automate revenue ops
Finance teams still bill complex software contracts with spreadsheets and rigid tools.

A complex structure of escaping helium spanning more than half the orbit of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b: #exoplanet WASP-121b.

Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…

Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE

Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom)
https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/

Zoom AI sets new state-of-the-art benchmark on Humanity's Last Exam
Federated innovation driving breakthrough results in complex AI testing

Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (Rohan Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.