Tootfinder

Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.

"Underwater curtains and reflective beads are ‘unrealistic and dangerous polar geoengineering ideas’"
#Geoengineering #Climate #ClimateChange

Cowboys star describes team's 'most dangerous group' mentality ahead of Week 2 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-star-describes-team-most-dangerous-group-mentality-ahead-nfl-week-2

Ingraham: Migrant Farm Workers Are "Dangerous" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/ingraham-migrant-farm-workers-are-dangerous/

Heh yes. Pretty much this.
"Much more will be written about proposals to build massive undersea walls to hold up Antarctic ice sheets, drill bore holes in Greenland to pump out lubricating meltwater, or scatter glass beads over glaciers. As informed and erudite I'm sure this will be, I don't think it will be as effective as simply yelling "What the hell do you think you are doing?!”"
@… reads through the lines and interprets our recent #Geoengineering paper into plain english in this entertaining blogpost
https://www.technosphere.earth/new-report-concludes-polar-geoengineering-is-dangerous/

'Extremely dangerous' — European leaders condemn Russia after drones shot down over Poland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/extremely-dangerous-european-leaders-condemn.html

Horrifying how #ALEC's lies are hurting so many people in many ways.
#NaturalGas is dirty, dangerous and damaging.
Dirty: toxic air around gas wells, toxic fumes from burning it
Dangerous: gas explosions, frequently associated with injuries and deaths, as well as destruction of propert…

Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas
A new state law that redefines natural gas as a “green” energy source was adapted from language written by a right-wing think tank.

“If you don’t like <insert Big Tech here>, just don’t use it” is a refrain I’ve often heard. Been warning folks for years that these things will become no longer optional. Maybe we need a new colloquialism; a corollary to “fuck around and find out.” Maybe “stay indifferent and find out?” https://mastodon.green/@g…

There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term,
with reports of raids across the country.
-- Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.
Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes
— a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.
“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric …

Trump says he's deporting 'worst of the worst.' Data tells a different story
President Donald Trump has pledged to target "the worst of the worst" as he moves to deport millions of people from the U.S. But government data contradicts this narrative. As of June 29, 71.7% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions, and only a small fraction were classified as high-level threats. Research has consistently shown that immigrants, including those who have entered the country illegally, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born citizens and that immigratio…

Gov. Josh Shapiro Puts Trump On Blast For 'Dangerous' Response To Charlie Kirk's Killing (Marita Vlachou/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-shapiro-condemns-trump-charlie-kirk_n_68c3f2c8e4b072943c566298
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p48#a250912p48

OK, so FFOTUS is making noises that he knew about Israel's plans to attack Iran, or that FFOTUS actually approved and supported that attack.
Whether that is true of not, FFOTUS has planted a very dangerous seed.
Now, there is plausible reason for Iran and Islamic radicals to conclude that there is an actual, but undeclared, war by the US on Iran.
Iran is not a stupid country, it knows that it can not directly attack the US, especially with anything nuclear.
But Ir…

Position: The Pitfalls of Over-Alignment: Overly Caution Health-Related Responses From LLMs are Unethical and Dangerous
Wenqi Marshall Guo, Yiyang Du, Heidi J. S. Tworek, Shan Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08833

Position: The Pitfalls of Over-Alignment: Overly Caution Health-Related Responses From LLMs are Unethical and Dangerous
Large Language Models (LLMs) are usually aligned with "human values/preferences" to prevent harmful output. Discussions around the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) generally focus on preventing harmful outputs. However, in this paper, we argue that in health-related queries, over-alignment-leading to overly cautious responses-can itself be harmful, especially for people with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This is not only unethical but also dangerous to the user, both…

#Mexico sends another planeload of dangerous drug suspects northbound to #US authorities for #prosecution in a so-called "sovereign decision", while President Sheinbaum rids her country of

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Tiwa Savage:
🎵 Dangerous Love
#TiwaSavage
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JayOLFuofunaBCIjissQL

Why Calling the Texas Flooding ‘An Act of God’ Is a Dangerous Form of Political Denial - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072025/why-calling-the-texas-flooding-an-act-of-god-is-a-dangerous-form-of-political-denial/

"it is undeniable that Kirk was not just a part of the extremely tense, very dangerous national dialogue, he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put the livelihoods and physical safety of many people in danger. We do no one any favors by ignoring this, even in the immediate aftermath of an assassination like this."
(Original title: Cha…

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

Breaking the Statistical Similarity Trap in Extreme Convection Detection
Md Tanveer Hossain Munim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09195 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Breaking the Statistical Similarity Trap in Extreme Convection Detection
Current evaluation metrics for deep learning weather models create a "Statistical Similarity Trap", rewarding blurry predictions while missing rare, high-impact events. We provide quantitative evidence of this trap, showing sophisticated baselines achieve 97.9% correlation yet 0.00 CSI for dangerous convection detection. We introduce DART (Dual Architecture for Regression Tasks), a framework addressing the challenge of transforming coarse atmospheric forecasts into high-resolution satellite bri…

Trade experts: Nvidia and AMD's deal to export AI chips to China and pay the US 15% of revenue is "unprecedented" and a sign of "a new and dangerous world" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TraceLens: Question-Driven Debugging for Taint Flow Understanding
Burak Yeti\c{s}tiren, Hong Jin Kang, Miryung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07198 https://

TraceLens: Question-Driven Debugging for Taint Flow Understanding
Taint analysis is a security analysis technique used to track the flow of potentially dangerous data through an application and its dependent libraries. Investigating why certain unexpected flows appear and why expected flows are missing is an important sensemaking process during end-user taint analysis. Existing taint analysis tools often do not provide this end-user debugging capability, where developers can ask why, why-not, and what-if questions about dataflows and reason about the impact o…

Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy
Haiyue Chen, Aniket Datar, Tong Xu, Francesco Cancelliere, Harsh Rangwala, Madhan Balaji Rao, Daeun Song, David Eichinger, Xuesu Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08226

Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy
Off-road navigation is an important capability for mobile robots deployed in environments that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans, such as disaster response or planetary exploration. Progress is limited due to the lack of a controllable and standardized real-world testbed for systematic data collection and validation. To fill this gap, we introduce Verti-Arena, a reconfigurable indoor facility designed specifically for off-road autonomy. By providing a repeatable benchmark environment, Ver…

He who pedlles hate will only get back hate.
He who promotes violence will end up as victim of the violence he promotes.
Here's something the fascists never seem to understand.
Is it good that it's so? Hell, no. It's sickening and very, very dangerous. But there's no point in pretending things are not how things are.
Violence WILL generate more violence. And everything in the fascist agenda is deeply violent. So prepare for what is coming, because it I…

Good work by Colm Duffy and colleagues on "Temperature Neutrality " published today. Link below to his blog and the paper within
How one country’s potential climate backslide could block others from feeding themselves, and derail global mitigation progress. | by Colm Duffy | Aug, 2025 | Medium

How one country’s potential climate backslide could block others from feeding themselves, and…
The Dangerous Allure of ‘No Additional Warming’.

If you're a Californian, please contact your senator and ask him to vote yes on AB 1264 to remove ultra-processed "food" from school lunches. These products have many adverse health impacts.
This link makes it easy to write your senator: https://action…

California: Tell Your State Senator to Get Dangerous, Ultra-Processed Food Out of School Lunches
This bill has already passed the Senate Health Committee unanimously, but manufacturers are pushing back hard against this bill, and the Senate will be voting soon to decide its fate.

Learned something new from the Veritasium YouTube channel: why are escalator handrails moving faster?
And there's more in there: the history of that invention, the things that made it uncomfortable or dangerous in the first few decades... and the fact that downwards escalators with lots of people on it are actually creating energy!
(slight warning: video starts with an escalator accident in Rome)

SC river the 'most contaminated' from dangerous forever chemicals, study finds #SouthCarolina

SC river the 'most contaminated' from dangerous forever chemicals, study finds
When researchers completed a national study of hazardous forever chemicals recently, they found that a South Carolina river had higher levels of pollution from the toxins than any other waterway they examined across the country.

Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models
Nivedha Sivakumar, Natalie Mackraz, Samira Khorshidi, Krishna Patel, Barry-John Theobald, Luca Zappella, Nicholas Apostoloff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08146

Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models
A dangerous assumption that can be made from prior work on the bias transfer hypothesis (BTH) is that biases do not transfer from pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to adapted models. We invalidate this assumption by studying the BTH in causal models under prompt adaptations, as prompting is an extremely popular and accessible adaptation strategy used in real-world applications. In contrast to prior work, we find that biases can transfer through prompting and that popular prompt-based mit…

Cutting aid funding now could bring a dangerous resurgence in malaria | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/malaria-africa-aid-cuts-uk-b2825483.html

Dangerous City du Jour - Whims of the Mad Despot: Four red states are worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent

This isn’t trivial stuff. Google has ~15 billion queries a day.
Let’s say 50% of those contain an “AI” summary.
Of these 50%—lets be generous again—10% contain grave factual errors and made-up stuff.
And then let’s be extremely generous and say 1% of queries ask for something like medical advice.
15,000,000,000 x 0.5 x 0.1 x 0.01 x 365 =2,737,500,000
That’s ~2.7 billion wrong, dangerous, misleading, maybe deadly “AI” summaries per year.

Cowboys Headlines: Lamb, Pickens to be the NFL’s most dangerous duo https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/11/news-cowboys-building-offensive-identity-around-chemistry-a…

#FuckEricAdams https://bird.makeup/users/streetsblognyc/statuses/1965055026612543955

Trying to sheepdog my wife through these morning errands with alacrity without appearing to be sheepdogging. It’s a dangerous game.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Surprise Chef:
🎵 Dangerous
#SurpriseChef
https://surprisechef.bandcamp.com/track/dangerous
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bo6RSCO8bQhucGe3BR848

Russia is targeting what's left of its capacity for innovation in space toward pestering the US military.
US intelligence officials last year said they believed Russia was pursuing a project to place a nuclear weapon in space.
The detonation of a nuclear bomb in orbit could muck up the space environment for years,
indiscriminately disabling countless satellites,
whether they're military or civilian.
Russia denied that it planned to launch a satellite w…

It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers
“Once more, we play our dangerous game—a game of chess—against our old adversary.”…

🐚 Ancient practice of blowing through a conch shell could help treat dangerous snoring condition
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-ancient-conch-shell-dangerous-condition.html

Ancient practice of blowing through a conch shell could help treat dangerous snoring condition
People who practiced blowing through a conch shell regularly for six months experienced a reduction in their symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a small randomized controlled trial published in ERJ Open Research.

Trump's Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/kirk-assassination-trump-response/684175/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p54#a250911p54

Semantic-guided Masked Mutual Learning for Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation with Arbitrary Missing Modalities
Guoyan Liang, Qin Zhou, Jingyuan Chen, Bingcang Huang, Kai Chen, Lin Gu, Zhe Wang, Sai Wu, Chang Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07592

Semantic-guided Masked Mutual Learning for Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation with Arbitrary Missing Modalities
Malignant brain tumors have become an aggressive and dangerous disease that leads to death worldwide.Multi-modal MRI data is crucial for accurate brain tumor segmentation, but missing modalities common in clinical practice can severely degrade the segmentation performance. While incomplete multi-modal learning methods attempt to address this, learning robust and discriminative features from arbitrary missing modalities remains challenging. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Semantic-…

"Zero-Click Prompt Injection":
https://calypsoai.com/insights/prompt-injection-attacks-what-you-need-to-know/
So instead of trying to trick an employee via phishing

Fierce Flirtation
#ScottPlank #BrandeRoderick
S11E04 "Dangerous Games"
#RandomBaywatch

I'm listening to the audiobook of *The Last Dangerous Visions*. I'm an hour in, and it's still #JoeStraczynski talking and talking and ....
He quotes Harlan, but it's over an hour (I think two hours, but I'm not done yet) of #JMS writing before the actual stories. I'm just o…

I hope he's wrong: "It's going to spread from city to city, and then to the suburbs, and then to rural areas, until Trump feels like he has complete authority over local law enforcement"
'These are dangerous times': Lawyer reveals Trump's plan behind his D.C. takeover bid - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/these-are-dangerous-times-lawyer-warns-trump-escalating-fight-with-law-enforcement/

Prompt Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
#security #llm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12175

I’m not a Bloomberg subscriber but I get a few of their newsletters. It’s interesting to me that they’re more or less 100% free of MAGA cant. They point out that tariffs are lose/lose, that the climate crisis is real and disastrous, that fucking with vaccines is lethally dangerous, etc etc. All of these emphasizing the finance angle of course.
My perception is that Bloomberg represents the conventional wisdom of the mainstream business community. So, a little surprising.

If you're a Californian, please contact your senator and ask him to vote yes on AB 1264 to remove ultra-processed "food" from school lunches. These products have many adverse health impacts.
This link makes it easy to write your senator: https://action…

California: Tell Your State Senator to Get Dangerous, Ultra-Processed Food Out of School Lunches
This bill has already passed the Senate Health Committee unanimously, but manufacturers are pushing back hard against this bill, and the Senate will be voting soon to decide its fate.

"How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals’"
#Plants #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals'
Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through the environment — and what farmers and landowners can do about it.

"At 6 months in, I think it’s time for food and nutrition advocates, scientists and professionals to call out the MAHA agenda for what it is - it’s a movement with the right vibes, the wrong priorities and solutions, headed up by someone with dangerous thoughts on public health who is not going to improve the health of Americans, nutritional or otherwise."
6 Months of MAHA

6 Months of MAHA
A Reflection and Call to Action

I reject Nazis and fascism in all their forms. As an autistic person, I know firsthand how dangerous and dehumanizing their propaganda can be. I am worthy of dignity, life, and respect. No one has the right to threaten my existence or the existence of anyone else with violence, sterilization, or genocide.
Fascism thrives on hate, lies, and the oppression of marginalized people. I am committed to fighting against it, educating myself, and resisting its influence. If I ever repeat or int…

The FBI, headed by Trump acolyte Kash Patel, has reassigned the jobs of thousands of agents
and eviscerated parts of the bureau tasked with investigating rightwing extremists that are considered the most dangerous domestic security threat facing the US today.
Those same types, which includes a locus of fascist street-fighting gangs known as active clubs and accelerationist neo-Nazis,
increasingly view Trump as an enemy,
but are freer than ever to organize
– alm…

'Very dangerous from a legal perspective' — Belgian, German leaders wary of confiscating frozen Russian assets: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/very-dangerous-from-a-legal.html

My tombstone should read `Knows just enough to be dangerous.` - I need a t-shirt made as a public safety warning.
Yesterday I borked my webserver - _never_ interrupt anything that is changing your #firewall rules or you're gonna have a bad time.
#ports WERE open in fw, yet when fw was up, traffic to…

The FBI's Dangerous Failure to Adapt to the Digital Age (Susan Landau/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-fbi-s-dangerous-failure-to-adapt-to-the-digital-age
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p39#a250707p39

Cybersecurity AI: The Dangerous Gap Between Automation and Autonomy
V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23592 https://

Cybersecurity AI: The Dangerous Gap Between Automation and Autonomy
The cybersecurity industry combines "automated" and "autonomous" AI, creating dangerous misconceptions about system capabilities. Recent milestones like XBOW topping HackerOne's leaderboard showcase impressive progress, yet these systems remain fundamentally semi-autonomous--requiring human oversight. Drawing from robotics principles, where the distinction between automation and autonomy is well-established, I take inspiration from prior work and establish a 6-level taxonomy (Level 0-5) disting…

The head of the California Privacy Protection Agency on the future of data privacy regulation https://therecord.media/california-privacy-protection-agency-tom-kemp-interview

"The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways."
-Robert Greene
#acting

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

Talking about dangerous supply chain vulnerabilities....
#drones

"It is clear to us that the assessed approaches are not feasible, and that further research into these techniques would not be an effective use of limited time and resources. It is vital that these ideas do not distract from the priority to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or from the critical need to conduct fundamental research in the polar regions."
New paper out today led by Martin Siegert and ft. (on here) me and @… and about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed #Polar #Geoengineering schemes are dangerous, misleading and unethical...
#AskMeAnything if you'd like to know more.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full
.

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contes…

There's always a problem of referring to someone who should not be named.
Perhaps iconography might help, such as "🟠💩for 🧠s".
As in "Those who show up at immigration courts are not the dangerous thugs 🟠💩for 🧠s said were the targets"

If you always have all your digital stuff set to English you may not be aware of how often those of us who use multi-lingual interfaces come across bad auto-translation that force us to do a double-take. (worst case they can of course be very dangerous).

This is from an email log in Gmail today.

The label "Delstat" is presumable from "State" in English, meaning what condition/status the email is in.

But delstat in Swedish essentially refers to U.S.…

Grandson of Robert Oppenheimer:
Israel is an incredibly dangerous country, with its undeclared nuclear weapons. Already it attacks neighbours, murders opponents and their families, rejects non-proliferation.
(BBC radio this morning).
#ZionistState #HiroshimaDay

This is why massive cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service are so dangerous. You can expect more of this with the increasingly anti-science policies given climate driven intense storms and increased unpredictability.
#science #weather

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says (PBS NewsHour)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/federal-mrna-funding-cut-is-most-dangerous-public-health-decision-ever-expert-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p5#a250807p5

Cynicism among reporters is a useful cipher for
the fear, desperation and impotence that news industry norms do not allow them,
but it has a dangerous side-effect:
it dulls outrage.
Without outrage,
crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide
can continue uninterrupted
– and they have.

There's always a problem of referring to someone who should not be named.
Perhaps iconography might help, such as "🟠💩for 🧠s".
As in "Those who show up at immigration courts are not the dangerous thugs 🟠💩for 🧠s said were the targets"

An offshore depression that never quite built into a tropical storm still managed to wreak havoc all week. It’s now turned back into the Atlantic, but the trailing weather is still not great. Fine enough for beach walks though.
#outerbanks #obx

A Sam-Leigh-Sean triangle forms
#BrandeRoderick #ScottPlank #JasonBrooks
S11E04 "Dangerous Games"

Governing AI R&D: A Legal Framework for Constraining Dangerous AI
Alex Mark, Aaron Scher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05361 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05…

Governing AI R&D: A Legal Framework for Constraining Dangerous AI
As AI advances, governing its development may become paramount to public safety. Lawmakers may seek to restrict the development and release of AI models or of AI research itself. These governance actions could trigger legal challenges that invalidate the actions, so lawmakers should consider these challenges ahead of time. We investigate three classes of potential litigation risk for AI regulation in the U.S.: the First Amendment, administrative law, and the Fourteenth Amendment. We discuss exi…

🧼 From 'MMS' to 'aerobic oxygen,' why drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend
https://theconversation.com/from-mms-to-aerobic-oxygen-why-drinking-bleach-has-become-a-dangerous-wellness-trend…

From ‘MMS’ to ‘aerobic oxygen’, why drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend
Chlorine dioxide, sold as a “miracle” cure under names like MMS, is not medicine. It’s toxic, unregulated and can be fatal. Here’s what you need to know.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has vehemently described the New York City subway as a hellscape, has been named to oversee NASA — putting him in charge of rocket ships that are far more dangerous than public transit.
After Donald Trump pulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the post, the president announced Duffy would be the interim NASA administrator.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, praising the former Real World cast member: “Sean i…

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.

LiHRA: A LiDAR-Based HRI Dataset for Automated Risk Monitoring Methods
Frederik Plahl, Georgios Katranis, Ilshat Mamaev, Andrey Morozov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06597 https://…

LiHRA: A LiDAR-Based HRI Dataset for Automated Risk Monitoring Methods
We present LiHRA, a novel dataset designed to facilitate the development of automated, learning-based, or classical risk monitoring (RM) methods for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios. The growing prevalence of collaborative robots in industrial environments has increased the need for reliable safety systems. However, the lack of high-quality datasets that capture realistic human-robot interactions, including potentially dangerous events, slows development. LiHRA addresses this challenge b…

Senator Elizabeth Warren: Firing of BLS commissioner is 'dangerous' (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/08/04/senator-elizabeth-warren-firing-of-bls-commissioner-is-dangerous.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p58#a250804p58

Cowboys' Dak Prescott is at his most dangerous right now, with nothing to prove https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/03/dak-prescott-has-nothing-to-prove-in-2025/84448410007/

"The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways."
-Robert Greene
#acting

Stand Up to Racism warned that members and former members of the nazi terror group Combat 18 and the neonazi party Homeland have been organising or attending many of the protests.
‘This is a dangerous moment’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dangerous-momen…

"Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050, scientists warn"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans

Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050, scientists warn
The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold.

Number of Ukrainian children killed and injured amid Russian full-scale invasion jumps threefold in recent months: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/number-of-ukrainian-children-killed.html

Former CDC directors cast RFK Jr. as 'dangerous' in New York Times guest essay (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/former-cdc-directors-rfk-jr-dangerous-new-york-times-rcna228374
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p43#a250901p43

'Exceptionally Dangerous': Trump EPA Targets Endangerment Finding That Enables Climate Rules | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/exceptionally-dangerous-trump-epa-targets-endangerment-finding-that-enables-climate-rules

3 Major Week 1 Takeaways: Cowboys could be dangerous if both sides balled at the same time https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/05/3-takeaways-schottenheimer-dedicatio…

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
Economy loses jobs for August
Donald Trump understands better than anyone else alive that his hold on his supporters
—and on plenty of swing voters, too
—depends on the mere perception that he’s strong, wins everywhere, always acts boldly, and wields absolute mastery over his eternally feckless, disoriented enemies.
Last month, after an anemic July jobs report, Trump fired the steward of jobs data,

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.

Anthropic updates Claude usage policy, adding stricter cybersecurity rules and explicitly banning the development of WMDs, and loosens political content rules (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760080/anthropic-updated-usage-policy-…

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to ban people from using its AI chatbot to help develop biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

RFK Jr.'s Dangerous Designs for Public Health (Sen. Bernie Sanders/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-s-dangerous-designs-for-public-health-fc317b53
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p151#a250904p151

"How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse?"
#Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned the Republican budget reconciliation package in stark terms during a floor speech late Sunday -- calling the measure
“the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country”
and warning that its massive cuts to Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other programs would have deadly consequences nationwide.
“Over 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every year,” said Sanders (I-Vt.),
referring to a recent…

Sanders Calls Trump-GOP Budget Bill 'Most Dangerous Piece of Legislation' in Modern US History | Common Dreams
"In my view, nobody in the Senate or the House should vote for this legislation," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Teaching the deaf to survive in a silent war zone: How Gaza is even more dangerous when you can’t hear the missiles fall | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-israel-war-deaf-hearing-b2818775.html

"FIFA urged to rethink the World Cup calendar as summer heat becomes increasingly dangerous"
#Football #Heatwave

Climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar
Scientists warn extreme heat could endanger players and fans at the 2026 World Cup without major schedule changes.

Obtaining humanitarian aid in Gaza can be difficult and dangerous,
and though some essentials are available at markets,
they are prohibitively expensive
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/m

Amid Scramble for Food, Prices in Gaza Reach Extraordinary Heights
Obtaining humanitarian aid can be difficult and dangerous, and though some essentials are available at markets, they are prohibitively expensive for many Gazans.

Crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership.
But Trump focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states,
sidestepping political conflict with Republican governors.
Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore,
ostensibly to quell violence,
a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But …

Ukraine hits Russia's most dangerous high-tech formation in Donetsk Oblast - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/22/ukraine-hits-russias-most-dangerous-high-tech-formation-in-donetsk-oblast/

Russia's internet crackdown is in a dangerous new phase (Sarkis Darbinyan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a71052d-d26d-4d71-95d8-c8886ca4fdea
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p54#a250806p54

What, exactly, constitutes a “conservative idea?”
That dictatorship is preferable to democracy?
That white Christian nationalism is better than tolerance and openness?
That social Darwinism is superior to human decency?
The claim that higher education must be more open to such “conservative ideas” is dangerous drivel.
So what’s the real, underlying reason for the Trump regime’s attack on education?
Not incidentally, that attack extends to grade school.

Trump claims Chicago is 'world's most dangerous city'. The four most violent ones are all in red states (George Chidi/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p38#a250906p38

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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Indivisible
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities. That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national…

Judge blocks ICE from deporting gay asylum seeker to a dangerous country - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/judge-blocks-ice-from-deporting-gay-asylum-seeker-to-a-dangerous-country/

The Fateful, Dangerous Compliance of the "Moderates" (David Pepper/Pepperspectives)
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/the-fateful-dangerous-compliance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p32#a250823p32

The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump's Strikes in Iran (Isaac Chotiner/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-dangerous-consequences-of-donald-trumps-strikes-in-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p46#a250622p46

As his support drops, Trump will "lash out in dangerous, unimaginable ways" (Chauncey DeVega/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/19/as-his-support-drops-will-lash-out-in-dangerous-unimaginable-ways/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p61#a250619p61

A dangerous shift is happening online.
All around the world, governments are quietly rewriting the rules of internet access.
Soon, privacy and anonymity online may become relics of the past.
The UK’s newly enacted Online Safety Act marks a fundamental shift.
You now need to verify your identity simply to watch a video, visit a website, or share your thoughts.
The Act mandates strict age verification and identity checks for websites and platforms considered to ho…

Show Your Papers: The Internet Is About to Change Forever — Ludlow Institute
A crackdown sweeping the globe is replacing the free internet with government surveillance