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Marc Maron on Anti-Woke "comedians". 🎯
I still think the best explanation for the anti-woke comedy thing is the "rebel comedian" ethos. These clowns think they're pushing back on suppression of speech, but they're just punching down.
I also notice Howie Mandel tries to downplay the influence (not "power") comedians with large platforms have.

Intrinsic Fingerprint of LLMs: Continue Training is NOT All You Need to Steal A Model!
Do-hyeon Yoon, Minsoo Chun, Thomas Allen, Hans M\"uller, Min Wang, Rajesh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03014

Intrinsic Fingerprint of LLMs: Continue Training is NOT All You Need to Steal A Model!
Large language models (LLMs) face significant copyright and intellectual property challenges as the cost of training increases and model reuse becomes prevalent. While watermarking techniques have been proposed to protect model ownership, they may not be robust to continue training and development, posing serious threats to model attribution and copyright protection. This work introduces a simple yet effective approach for robust LLM fingerprinting based on intrinsic model characteristics. We d…

130 unit tests passing; 90 regression tests passing… still choking on real-world content/end-to-end tests. FML.
(First world problems.)
(I’ll pick it up again tomorrow.)

Dear old Violet.
She'll be turning 13 in October, so she's kind of on borrowed time for a greyhound. She seems to have lost most of her vision now and is underweight, though her appetite is still huge and she still loves her walks.
She was once a terror for the local cats and squirrels but now if they remain still she doesn't spot them. She still sniffs every place that she remembers them to have been.

ZIUM: Zero-Shot Intent-Aware Adversarial Attack on Unlearned Models
Hyun Jun Yook, Ga San Jhun, Jae Hyun Cho, Min Jeon, Donghyun Kim, Tae Hyung Kim, Youn Kyu Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21985

ZIUM: Zero-Shot Intent-Aware Adversarial Attack on Unlearned Models
Machine unlearning (MU) removes specific data points or concepts from deep learning models to enhance privacy and prevent sensitive content generation. Adversarial prompts can exploit unlearned models to generate content containing removed concepts, posing a significant security risk. However, existing adversarial attack methods still face challenges in generating content that aligns with an attacker's intent while incurring high computational costs to identify successful prompts. To address th…

Force and geometric signatures of the creep-to-failure transition in a granular pile
Qing Hao, Luca Montoya, Elena Lee, Luke K. Davis, Cacey Stevens Bester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01391

Force and geometric signatures of the creep-to-failure transition in a granular pile
Granular creep is the slow, sub-yield movement of constituents in a granular packing due to the disordered nature of its grain-scale interactions. Despite the ubiquity of creep in disordered materials, it is still not understood how to best predict the creep-to-failure regime based on the forces and interactions among constituents. To address this gap, we perform experiments to explore creep and failure in quasi two-dimensional piles of photoelastic disks, allowing the quantification of both gr…

Yes, Google, I definitely need to make an "engaging video with AI” for my document of paid ad performance metrics and projections.
This is totally, definitely, indubitably a legitimate use case for a product that you're pushing on your users. *heavy sacrasm*

QB Dart passing all tests in another strong outing https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45998611/giants-jaxson-dart-passing-all-tests-latest-strong-outing

On my way to The Hague, to draw the red line for Dutch government with respect to Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
After last time's 100,000 participants, NS put in a lot of extra trains. My very early one already has a lot of passengers in red.
#rodelijn