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Stemt u straks op een partij die medeplichtig is aan massamoord?
https://dekanttekening.nl/columns/stemt-u-straks-op-een-partij-die-medeplichtig-is-aan-massamoord/

Stemt u straks op een partij die medeplichtig is aan massamoord? - de Kanttekening
Ja, die vraag komt vast even keihard binnen. Maar de vraag moet worden gesteld: stemt U straks op 29 oktober bij de Kamerverkiezingen op een partij die medeplichtig is aan massamoord? Met andere woorden valt intussen niet meer de houding te betitelen die de Nederlandse regering en de (gewezen) ultrarechtse coalitiepartijen PVV, VVD, BBB plus […]

Veterans Beg Ron DeSantis to Stop Killing Them (Kenneal Patterson/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/veterans-beg-ron-desantis-to-stop-killing-them/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p1#a250814p1

A Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Sharing Framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Hui Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09715 https://

A Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Sharing Framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
With the proliferation of decentralized applications (DApps), the conflict between the transparency of blockchain technology and user data privacy has become increasingly prominent. While Decentralized Identity (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) provide a standardized framework for user data sovereignty, achieving trusted identity verification and data sharing without compromising privacy remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a novel, comprehensive framework that integrates D…

Remarks on propagation of discontinuities in stationary radiative transfer
Daisuke Kawagoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12130 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1213…

Remarks on propagation of discontinuities in stationary radiative transfer
We consider the stationary transport equation with the incoming boundary condition. We are interested in discontinuities of the solution. Under the generalized convexity condition, it is known that it has only boundary-induced discontinuities, which are discontinuities arising from discontinuous boundary data, they propagate along positive characteristic lines, and we can reconstruct the attenuation coefficient from boundary measurements by the inverse X-ray transform. In this article, we obser…

Differentially Private Decentralized Dataset Synthesis Through Randomized Mixing with Correlated Noise
Utsab Saha, Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy, Hafiz Imtiaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10385

Differentially Private Decentralized Dataset Synthesis Through Randomized Mixing with Correlated Noise
In this work, we explore differentially private synthetic data generation in a decentralized-data setting by building on the recently proposed Differentially Private Class-Centric Data Aggregation (DP-CDA). DP-CDA synthesizes data in a centralized setting by mixing multiple randomly-selected samples from the same class and injecting carefully calibrated Gaussian noise, ensuring (ε, δ)-differential privacy. When deployed in a decentralized or federated setting, where each client holds only a s…

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to YouTube
that doesn't believe in harvesting user data and pushing people into echo chambers via a proprietary algorithm.
Built on open standards and federation,
it lets communities host and share video without depending on a central server.
https://news.itsfoss.com/peertube-7…

Decentralized YouTube Alternative Adds Live Streame Scheduling Option in Latest Release
Also adds multilingual emails, improved admin tools, and session management.

I’m getting requests to fill out dev surveys weekly, with results of older surveys coming monthly or so. I fill them out, but I’m wary of their biases, barriers, and objectives.
Some disjointed thoughts…
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/08/my-thoughts-on-the-sta…

My Thoughts on the State of Surveys
Every few months there’s another State of Something survey. As of this week, the State of CSS 2025 survey results have just become available and the State of HTML 2025 survey is wrapping up. This post is skewed to those, touches on more, and is rather disjointed. “2012 Oregon City…

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
Matteo Mordacchini, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11697 https…

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
We address the problem of computing a Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover (MWVC) in a decentralized network. MWVC, a classical NP-hard problem, is foundational in applications such as network monitoring and resource placement. We propose a fully decentralized protocol where each node makes decisions using only local knowledge and communicates with its neighbors. The method is adaptive, communication-efficient, and avoids centralized coordination. We evaluate the protocol on real-world and synthetic g…

Newsom rejects bill giving descendants of slaves preference in college admissions (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/newsom-rejects-bill-granting-admissions-preference-to-descendants-of-slavery-00604196
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p127#a251013p127

This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent
There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.