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NFL on FOX analyst believes Dak Prescott belongs firmly in MVP conversation https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-fox-analyst-believes-dak-prescott-belongs-firmly-mvp-conversation

"I share your enthusiasm for conversation over food. I ran a fishing lodge for 8 years, people from all over the world came. I would eat dinner with a different group each night. I am unable to count the times that the sun set and midnight arrived with the food gone and only wine and conversation left. Conversation seems to be leaving society now in many circles."
conversation and dining has been superseded bu uber eats and social media,.
UGH!

Q&A with Willie Shubert, VP of Programs at environmental news outlet Mongabay, about its global newsroom, publishing news daily in many languages, and more (Rhett Butler/Mongabay)
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/buil

Separating Church from Hate: A Conversation With John Fugelsang
https://religionnews.com/2025/08/09/separating-church-from-hate-a-conversation-with-john-fugelsang/

An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and the generative AI chatbot shows how ordinarily rational people can spiral into delusion (New York Times)
https://www.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Piano Stories
Piano technician to the greats, Ulrich Gerhartz is in conversation about pianos with his friend and mentor Alfred Brendel in Brendel's last recorded conversation.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gryg

Dante Moore is rising fast -- Oregon QB now a serious name in No. 1 pick conversation for 2026 NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/dante-moore-2026-nfl-draft-scouting…

Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that Donald Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein,
that was eventually compiled into an album of messages to celebrate Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
The sexually suggestive note to Epstein includes a conversation between Trump and the late sex offender,
with a naked female silhouette drawn around it. The president’s signature is at the bottom of the note.
“Happy birthday – …

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: Apparently not. Can I offer you some refreshment? Everything here is reconstituted, of course, but it remains palatable.
AVON: We came here to talk, Egrorian.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/118 B7B4

Finding Diamonds in Conversation Haystacks: A Benchmark for Conversational Data Retrieval
Yohan Lee, Yongwoo Song, Sangyeop Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02938 https://

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The National:
🎵 Conversation 16
#NowPlaying #TheNational
https://thenational.bandcamp.com/track/conversation-16
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KIvl5KkeTnd9Z7X6cHzRW

If you get an invite to this generative art software engineering call, note that if you submit something and it gets accepted, as far as I can tell it would cost you $3000 in open access fees... unless you want it to languish behind a paywall (you'd then only be allowed to share an unedited draft, and even then would have to advertise the paywall on it). They don't seem to want to make this clear in their call.

The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
Danielle Ensign, Henry Sleight, Kyle Fish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04781 https://

Prompting in Practice: Investigating Software Developers' Use of Generative AI Tools
Daniel Otten, Trevor Stalnaker, Nathan Wintersgill, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06000

Randy Moss completes cancer treatment, details conversation with Deion Sanders amid coach's battle

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/randy-m

At 79, Dr. Jeffrey Bland hikes mountain ranges, surfs in the ocean, and sailed over 40,000 miles on his boat.
Dr. Jonny Bowden plays tennis two hours a day, hikes five days a week and conquered the Fight for Air Climb.
In this fireside chat, these two respected pioneers share science-backed secrets for living younger, longer.
As thriving examples of what’s possible through smart nutrition, functional medicine, and lifestyle design.
This conversation will explore h…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke:
🎵 This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice
#MarkPritchard #ThomYorke
https://markpritchard.bandcamp.com/track/this-conversation-is-missing-your-voice-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/0PPbQsF0iAnlANxM916mst

I get immensely distressed when I see students building a little nest for themselves in just one proverbial corner of campus. Perhaps my most common advising conversation is “You do not need to take 3 classes at once in this department. What about <<category you’ve never studied>>?”
(Macalester is a liberal arts college, so our curriculum is carefully calibrated such that there is •room• for students to touch many disciplines. That’s the point. Yes, there are other kinds of schools where do you have to take almost all your classes in one dept. I am leery of that.)

Opening the Gates of Hasidic Thought: A Fall Symposium
https://ift.tt/CBl4npG
Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

It's time to have a serious conversation about Trump's health (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-to-have-a-serious-conversation-about-trump-s-health
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p39#a250901p39

@… I get the feeling that Evan is not interested in this conversation.

Jerry Jones built America's team into a reality show we can't look away from https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6541444/2025/08/08/jerry-jones-cowboys-owner-americas-team/

I was recently quoted as saying, about online media, that we can “change the global Internet conversation for the better, by making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth-tellers to be believed.”
I thought I should offer details. So here’s a little scenario, the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how to make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real.

We were near President office today where was the gathering of time-stopping supporters which is the essence of „Poland will always be Poland” motto..
Conversation between two older men, both dressed in „patriotic” chinese t-shirts, commenting an arabic-dressed lady.
„My mate in Paris was afraid of standing in the train station, there so much of *this*”.
„My friend in Cologne…”
It’s interesting how in Polish macho culture it’s so easy to admit you’re afraid of a perso…

Technical Overview of Safe3Step (S3S): Power Ratings and quality wins for selecting at-large teams to the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
Lawrence Feldman, Matthew Bomparola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06279

Hmmm, well my migration script seems to be working, but it's showing all public replies in the view.
Not sure if that's due to the destination server not having the full conversation, a change between default and Glitch, or a bug in my script, but I guess it works?...
My concept; query the source server (via a public / anonymous connection) to retrieve all posts for a target user, then on the destination server perform a search of each post URL so it's available in th…

We have just had a conversation on how pleasurable the word 'acidulated' is to say. I remarked that lip readers must get their own special pleasure from reading it on the lips of another.
The reason is because the apples and pears need preparation for freezing as they won't keep.

TIL that Microsoft Copilot is now trying to show a "face" with different "emotions". That it's not working right now is not my issue. That MS are even more explicitly trying to trick people into thinking they are having a conversation with an actual person, however, most definitely *is*.
Did this "feature" run through an ethics board review? Is the additional emotional deception of users intentional? Who actually wants that sh..?
I am getting ha…

Jerry Jones built America's team into a reality show we can't look away from https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6541444/2025/08/08/jerry-jones-cowboys-owner-americas-team/

it's wild how simply mentioning a link on mastodon in a personal conversation instantly lands you a thousand GET/HEAD requests

@… I was just in conversation with a student in one of my classes (vocational school) who compared it to blaming video games for violent kids. It was a strained conversation... one reason I had to get something out of my system. @…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Elena Kats‐Chernin, James Crabb, Christina Leonard, Dale Barltrop, Julian Smiles, Kees Boersma, Tamara Anna Cislowska & Mark Robinson:
🎵 The Three Dancers: 4. Conversation & 5. Cubist Counterpoint
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Pc6mdSXjeEVZlkxDvmGiq

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
JENNA: Well, yes, I've only met her once, but, yes, that's her.
AVON: Then it must be Chevner.
GAN: Chevner. How do you think he'll do it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/349 B7B2

Tom Brady’s Conversation With Raiders Rookie Catches Attention at Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-donte-thornton-training-camp/?adt_ei=[email]

I know this sounds click-baity, but it's worth reading. Think "hilarious things that kids say" and you're ready to go 🙂 (appeared in my feed because of the education connection)
https://www.upworthy.com/mom-is-completely-embarrassed-ex1

Social Agent: Mastering Dyadic Nonverbal Behavior Generation via Conversational LLM Agents
Zeyi Zhang, Yanju Zhou, Heyuan Yao, Tenglong Ao, Xiaohang Zhan, Libin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04637

More of this, please. (Spotted on Reddit.)
#HoesUnion

Thanks, dude. Appreciate you reaching out.

Looking for something to do this evening in SF? Come learn about municipal social housing!
https://actionnetwork.org/events/municipal-social-housing-panel?source=mastodon

https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/0550246/ais-cheerful-apocalyptics-unconcerned-if-ai-defeats-humanity
>AI's 'Cheerful Apocalyptics': Unconcerned If AI Defeats Humanity

TIL: Slack messages from private channels aren't private anymore, if someone post it in a public channel :🤯
Then everyone can read it.
I guess it's a feature and not a bug,, but I was really not expecting this!
#privacy #security

„My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first.”
The PKM-movement never took off for me since it feels like building and bulding and building… Just one more note! It’s like productivity snake-oil.

Canadian Mountie Sits Down With a Senior–And The Conversation Saved His Life https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/canadian-mountie-sits-down-with-senior-and-the-conversation-saved-his-life/

I got myself a ticket to see @… in Berlin soon. Get them while they last.
https://mastodon.social/@publix/114935748880689345

I desperately need to have a good satisfying conversation with anyone about anything for no particular reason rn but lord knows how that shit works

Kids and gun violence
This week's Executive Disorder started with a conversation about the school shooting in Twin Cities...
#USPol

Alignment Without Understanding: A Message- and Conversation-Centered Approach to Understanding AI Sycophancy
Lihua Du, Xing Lyu, Lezi Xie, Bo Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21665

#KamalaHarris tells #StephenColbert why she’s sticking w/ wired earphones:
“I served on the Senate Intelligence Committee...don’t be on the train using your EarPods thinking somebody can’t listen to your conversation...the [wired] are a bit more secure.”

Not sure who is responsible for this 'conversation' text message scam, but I do notice no option to block or report them

In this episode of "Reflections on Religion and Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field," Stephen Blackmer '12 M.A.R.—forest conservationist, Episcopal priest (now former), and founder of Church of the Woods—joins host Tali Anisfeld for a deeply contemplative conversation on trees, prophecy, and spiritual communion with the Earth.
View the interview here:

Dolphins' Tua Tagovailoa says bond with Tyreek Hill has been repaired: 'I think that conversation is dead now'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Would anyone in my timeline know how I can posting privileges on the Purescript Discourse? I'm stuck in a never-ending bot conversation, and the moderators are not responding.

Tree-based Dialogue Reinforced Policy Optimization for Red-Teaming Attacks
Ruohao Guo, Afshin Oroojlooy, Roshan Sridhar, Miguel Ballesteros, Alan Ritter, Dan Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02286

Andy Burnham here talking very positively about #LandValueTax and #WealthTax.
Politics Weekly UK: Andy Burnham live in conversation
Episode webpage:

Great meet the author event tonight with Frank Bongiorno in conversation with Virginia Haussegger about her new book (launched tonight) *Unfinished Revolution*. Elizabeth Reid was there too!
#Books #History #Politics

City Snaps - Chengdu / Freeze Frame ⏳
城市抓拍 - 成都 /静帧 ⏳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford Pan 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

It sounds like that Tea app vulnerability (not the one where they had data just open to the world on Firebase, but a second problem) is what I describe in the first paragraph of this post.
You *can’t* rely on user-controlled devices to safely hold credentials that work for more than that one user—especially if the credentials live outside of something like a hardware security module, which they almost certainly do if your app is storing them.

Time to air some grievances: I hate it when someone answers with: 'Great question' in a written medium like a comment.
I get it when you want to stall for time in a conversation, it gives you pause to think about an answer, but it's useless in written form.You have all the time you want to formulate a response, and no, the question was not exceptional but rather mundane.
Disclaimer: I might be on some kind of

Time-To-Inconsistency: A Survival Analysis of Large Language Model Robustness to Adversarial Attacks
Yubo Li, Ramayya Krishnan, Rema Padman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02712 http…

On Sunday, group chats around the capital lit up with a 31-tweet-long thread by a crypto investor named Adam Cochran alleging that Trump was in ill health.
This morning, the press corps was kept about 100 yards from the president.
The speculation wasn’t helped by a series of strange answers J.D. Vance gave in a USA Today interview last week,
where he said he was ready to be president if needed:
“I've gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the last 200 day…

The Attribution Crisis in LLM Search Results
Ilan Strauss, Jangho Yang, Tim O'Reilly, Sruly Rosenblat, Isobel Moure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00838 https://

Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, is launching "always-on" AI glasses for $249 (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/harv

NFL Makes Final Call on Dak Prescott’s Role in Cowboys-Eagles Spitting Incident https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-no-rules-broken-spitting-nfl/?adt_ei=[email]

I think 3 is magic because it allows one adult to take care of the child, one to take care of the house, and one to relax.
Or, when the housework is done, two adults can actually have an adult conversation for a bit.

Predicting top 10 order of NFL Draft based on current records and future schedules: Who will pick No. 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/p

An Honest Conversation: Raiders Need Help In The Secondary https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/18/an-honest-conversation-raiders-need-help-in-the-secondary/

Here's the CEO of Vercel chatting with Netanjahu about AI _today_.
Great that Mr Rauch is now "Optimistic for Peace, safety and greatness for Israel and its neighbors". People in Gaza will be very happy.
You still deploying all your shit to Vercel and using their software stack?
(Link: https://x…

organizing this panel about social housing and how Seattle’s success can inspire SF to get around roadblocks. please come if you’re in SF! Friday evening
https://actionnetwork.org/events/municipal-social-housing-panel?source=mastodon

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Norma Winstone in conversation
This Friday night, Soweto is joined by special guest, pioneering British vocalist and lyricist Norma Winstone.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hls5

Opening the Gates of Hasidic Thought: A Fall Symposium
https://ift.tt/dvQ7BXa
Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

A June ranking of the top nonprofit US news sites by traffic shows The Conversation leading by far, followed by the Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/nonprofi

Towards Stable and Personalised Profiles for Lexical Alignment in Spoken Human-Agent Dialogue
Keara Schaaij, Roel Boumans, Tibor Bosse, Iris Hendrickx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04104

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: There isn't.
SERVALAN: And if you want to keep your job you'll find it.
DURKIM: Why won't you face the facts?
SERVALAN: Because I'm not convinced. And even if I were, there would be nothing I could do about it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/33

Titans' Brian Callahan shares conversation with Will Levis after surgery, explains where Cam Ward is improving

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ti…

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript

The authoritarian strongmen Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
have mused on how organ transplants might lead to immortality,
during a brief exchange of small talk caught on a hot mic at a military parade.
https://www.

In a saner environment, we’d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.
Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)
7/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Laetitia Sonami:
🎵 Conversation with a Lightbulb
#LaetitiaSonami
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AJ6QZMALqT1r1mHVxJUGu
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Dak Prescott's memorable offseason conversation helped prepare Cowboys' new LT Nate Thomas https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6529753/2025/08/01/cowboys-left-tackle-nate-thomas/

Chatbot Deployment Considerations for Application-Agnostic Human-Machine Dialogues
Pablo Rivas, Chelsi Chelsi, Nishit Nishit, Laharika Ravula
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02611 ht…

Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of
“always-on” AI-powered smart glasses
that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. 
“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,”
said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology. 
Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses “give you infinite m…

Profiles of OpenAI's heads of research Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, where they discuss the path toward more capable reasoning models and superalignment (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/3

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Music on the Front Line
Clive Myrie in conversation with news correspondents. He and Lyse Doucet share stories revealing the power and meaning of music when reporting from extreme conflict situations.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020r1f

Six rising 2026 NFL Draft prospects who belong in top 50 player conversation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6681047/2025/10/02/nfl-draft-2026-risers-dante-moore-arvell-reese/

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
GROVANE: Well, I didn't see Mandrian die either, but I know he's dead.
AVON: I've just spent the last ten minutes in the filter plant looking for something that should be there but isn't. The cable that was damaged carries a high energy charge. In order to cut it, he would need a laser knife or an insulated saw. Ne…

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement,
according to three faculty members familiar with the matter.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/…

The Carbon Cost of Conversation, Sustainability in the Age of Language Models
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri, Prasun Goswami, Md. Mainul Islam, Mohammad Shakhawat Hossen, Sayed Majhab Hasan Amiri, Naznin Akter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20018

Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models
Son Quoc Tran, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Nicholas Chernogor, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19470

Dan Quinn’s unusual exercise brought the Commanders closer — and helped them surprise the NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6595656/2025/09/04/dan-quinns-unusual-exercise-brought-the-commanders-close…

Kevin Stefanski addresses Shedeur Sanders sideline conversation, why Browns chose Tyler Huntley in 2-minute

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kevin-s

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
AVON: - and I was assuring him that the whole idea is an absurd fantasy.
ORAC: On the contrary. It is neither absurd, nor is it a fantasy.
AVON: Are you suggesting that you know more about the subject than I do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/115 …

Mitigating Strategy Preference Bias in Emotional Support Conversation via Uncertainty Estimations
Yougen Zhou, Qin Chen, Ningning Zhou, Jie Zhou, Xingjiao Wu, Liang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12661 …

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: [Moves next to Tarrant at Main pilot's console] Anything on the star charts?
TARRANT: Not within this quadrant. Nothing listed, not even a Federation beacon.
AVON: It couldn't be that?
TARRANT: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/6

What's The Scariest Way to Start a Conversation? | Cowboys Cam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQTsXpQzLoM

Hybrid Dialogue State Tracking for Persian Chatbots: A Language Model-Based Approach
Samin Mahdipour Aghabagher, Saeedeh Momtazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01052 https://…

We are witnessing an unprecedented government assault on First Amendment freedoms in America.
To address the state of our Constitutional liberties, we will be convening an emergency Zoom call with Garry Kasparov next Thursday, September 25 at 12pm ET/9am PT.
Let’s have a real conversation about the future of this country’s democracy, face-to-face.

Dan Quinn’s unusual exercise brought the Commanders closer — and helped them surprise the NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6595656/2025/09/04/dan-quinns-unusual-exercise-brought-the-commanders-close…

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
CALLY: Treatment unit. He tried to reconnect one of the servo links and it burned his hand.
BLAKE: Right, sit down. [All but Vila sit at a small table to the left of flight consoles] No one is to attempt to repair any equipment till the computers are back under our control.
https://blake.torpi…

Jordan Love's big-play offense, Micah Parsons'-powered pass rush puts Packers in Super Bowl conversation

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jordan-