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Trial kicks off to decide legality of Trump’s L.A. military deployment | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trial-kicks-off-to-decide-legality-of-trumps-l-a-military-deployment/

When should young athletes specialize in a sport? This story may help you decide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6616450/2025/09/11/youth-sports-specialization-parents-young-athletes/

Cowboys HC outlines how they decide game script of opening plays, what he wants in Week 2 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/11/cowboys-schottenheimer-giants-game-plan-dak…

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs,
setting up a major test of one of the Republican president’s boldest assertions of executive power that has been central to his economic and trade agenda.
The justices took up the justice department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that
Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of his tariffs under a federal law meant for emergencies.
The court acted swiftly aft…

That thing where you’re sitting in a cafe, quietly enjoying a cappuccino with your book, and get to a part where you unexpectedly have an emotion and have to decide if staring straight down or straight up will alarm anyone.

Es muy poco probable que el candidato Kast se pronuncie en contra de la desinformación política en redes sociales puesto que una parte importante de su propia campaña presidencial se basa en mentiras. Como lo de la nota 👇🏻
https://www.

"What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?"
#NetZero #Ships
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What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?
This is Part 3 of a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Part 1 addressed international policy and politics, Part 2 efficiency measures. This part looks at alternative fuels. In mid-October, more than 100 nations will gather at a London meeting to decide whether to enshrine a set of carbon reduction […]

Gemini Invents a New Language
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots -- Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT -- to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Because of the length of the responses, I created three separate articles demonstrating the language invention capabilities of each Bot. You can decide which language Bot was most effective and inventive.

Gemini Invents a New Language | David Boles, Blogs
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots — Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT — to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Beca…

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.

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.

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Julie Ruin:
🎵 I Decide
#TheJulieRuin
https://thejulieruin.bandcamp.com/track/i-decide
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LttFYN3gwqMmSZi1gXLLI

Trying to decide between going with a budget ebike around $1,000 or a better model from a local shop that would be double that price.
The cheaper one is definitely within my budget, while the other option is quite a bit more that I’d like to spend…
Hoping to commute to work, 7 miles each way, both could handle that easily…
#biking

Google is fond of saying its mission is to
"organize the world's information,"
but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization?
A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index,
and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it.
Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search …

Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search
Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only “a tiny fraction of websites.”…

Securing Cryptographic Software via Typed Assembly Language (Extended Version)
Shixin Song, Tingzhen Dong, Kosi Nwabueze, Julian Zanders, Andres Erbsen, Adam Chlipala, Mengjia Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08727

Securing Cryptographic Software via Typed Assembly Language (Extended Version)
Authors of cryptographic software are well aware that their code should not leak secrets through its timing behavior, and, until 2018, they believed that following industry-standard constant-time coding guidelines was sufficient. However, the revelation of the Spectre family of speculative execution attacks injected new complexities. To block speculative attacks, prior work has proposed annotating the program's source code to mark secret data, with hardware using this information to decide wh…

"NOT everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer’s library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language."

Tim Peters
Not everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer's library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language.

Truthful Two-Obnoxious-Facility Location Games with Optional Preferences and Minimum Distance Constraint
Xiaojia Han, Wenjing Liu, Qizhi Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08036 ht…

Truthful Two-Obnoxious-Facility Location Games with Optional Preferences and Minimum Distance Constraint
In this paper, we study a truthful two-obnoxious-facility location problem, in which each agent has a private location in [0, 1] and a public optional preference over two obnoxious facilities, and there is a minimum distance constraint d between the two facilities. Each agent wants to be as far away as possible from the facilities that affect her, and the utility of each agent is the total distance from her to these facilities. The goal is to decide how to place the facilities in [0, 1] so as t…

ChatGPT Invents a New Language
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots -- Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT -- to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Because of the length of the responses, I created three separate articles demonstrating the language invention capabilities of each Bot. You can decide which language Bot was most effective and inventive.

ChatGPT Invents a New Language | David Boles, Blogs
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots — Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT — to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Beca…

I can't decide who's less likable - Mike Johnson or JD Vance. Vance has a more punchable face, but Johnson is much smoother at being a despicable piece of shit.
Vance is that edgelord that everyone hates but at least you know what they are; Johnson is that evil manager who seems agreeable and nice but then quietly reports you to higher-ups as a problem and makes sure you never get any real opportunities or advance anywhere in your career, and tells any future employers what a…

I'm working on something marginally related to an academic conference held in the 1930s. I can't decide if I'm jealous of the past or relieved to live in the present: the gathering lasted thirteen days in early September!
#academia

The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security
testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests.
The question is whether Donald Trump‘s deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs.
Ernesto Santacruz Jr. testified at the start of a three-day trial in S…

Trial to start over National Guard deployment to Los Angeles
A federal judge in San Francisco will hear arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country. Judge Charles Breyer will decide whether the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force, was violated by the 4,700 California National Guard members and Marines sent following protests. T…

Eutanasia en Chile: ¿quién decide? Columna de Paula Escobar.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/68bdbd6def1a15.09991675
🔗 original:

VeriOS: Query-Driven Proactive Human-Agent-GUI Interaction for Trustworthy OS Agents
Zheng Wu, Heyuan Huang, Xingyu Lou, Xiangmou Qu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhaoxiang Wang, Zhuosheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07553

VeriOS: Query-Driven Proactive Human-Agent-GUI Interaction for Trustworthy OS Agents
With the rapid progress of multimodal large language models, operating system (OS) agents become increasingly capable of automating tasks through on-device graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, most existing OS agents are designed for idealized settings, whereas real-world environments often present untrustworthy conditions. To mitigate risks of over-execution in such scenarios, we propose a query-driven human-agent-GUI interaction framework that enables OS agents to decide when to query h…

Timing the Message: Language-Based Notifications for Time-Critical Assistive Settings
Ya-Chuan Hsu, Jonathan DeCastro, Andrew Silva, Guy Rosman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07438 …

Timing the Message: Language-Based Notifications for Time-Critical Assistive Settings
In time-critical settings such as assistive driving, assistants often rely on alerts or haptic signals to prompt rapid human attention, but these cues usually leave humans to interpret situations and decide responses independently, introducing potential delays or ambiguity in meaning. Language-based assistive systems can instead provide instructions backed by context, offering more informative guidance. However, current approaches (e.g., social assistive robots) largely prioritize content gener…

Quantum Walks for Chemical Reaction Networks
Seenivasan Hariharan, Sebastian Zur, Sachin Kinge, Lucas Visscher, Kareljan Schoutens, Stacey Jeffery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07890

Quantum Walks for Chemical Reaction Networks
We lay the foundation for a quantum algorithmic framework to analyse fixed-structure chemical reaction networks (CRNs) using quantum random walks (QRWs) via electrical circuit theory. We model perturbations to CRNs, such as, species injections that shift steady-state concentrations, while keeping the underlying species-reaction graph fixed. Under physically meaningful mass-action constraints, we develop quantum algorithms that (i) decide reachability of target species after perturbation, (ii) s…

alright yall im tryna decide what to read next, never read any of these before:
i have no mouth and i must scream
several short sentences about writing
house of leaves
no 44 (been on my list longest ajfkajd)
american psycho
one hundred years of solitude

To Distill or Decide? Understanding the Algorithmic Trade-off in Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
Yuda Song, Dhruv Rohatgi, Aarti Singh, J. Andrew Bagnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03207

To Distill or Decide? Understanding the Algorithmic Trade-off in Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
Partial observability is a notorious challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), due to the need to learn complex, history-dependent policies. Recent empirical successes have used privileged expert distillation--which leverages availability of latent state information during training (e.g., from a simulator) to learn and imitate the optimal latent, Markovian policy--to disentangle the task of "learning to see" from "learning to act". While expert distillation is more computationally efficient tha…

Claude.ai Invents a New Language
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots -- Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT -- to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Because of the length of the responses, I created three separate articles demonstrating the language invention capabilities of each Bot. You can decide which language Bot was most effective and inventive.

Claude.ai Invents a New Language | David Boles, Blogs
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots — Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT — to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Beca…

It Doesn't Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/opinion/trump-venezuela-airstrike-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p78#a250907p78

Testimony from ex-IDF officer.
Human shields / human mine detectors routinely used.
Individual soldiers decide who to shoot.
Some soldiers compete to kill the most Palestinians.
Siluetes at windows shot at without knowing who they are.
This testimony consistent with 200 collected by Israel NGO, 'Breaking the Silence'
Un exsargento israelí desplegado en Gaza: "No hay reglas claras, nosotros decidimos si disparamos a los civiles"

Un exsargento israelí desplegado en Gaza: "No hay reglas claras, nosotros decidimos si disparamos a los civiles"
Un exsargento que no quiere revelar su identidad denuncia a elDiario.es el uso de escudos humanos en lo que el ejército llama 'protocolo mosquito' y consiste en que civiles palestinos avancen por delante de las tropas por si hay explosivos o una emboscada

Group of small businesses calls on Supreme Court to decide tariffs case - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/group-of-small-businesses-calls-on-supreme-court-to-decide-tariffs-case/

Germany to decide on more Patriots for Ukraine 'within days or weeks': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/germany-to-decide-on-more.html

I have often told myself that many of my best tweets, toots, skytes etc are the ones I write, think about, and then delete instead of sending.
What I can't decide is whether the best thing about them is that they got deleted, or that I am deleting my best posts.
(Inclined to favour the former)

Tabular intermediate logics comparison
Pawe{\l} Rz\k{a}\.zewski, Micha{\l} Stronkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06841 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06841

Tabular intermediate logics comparison
Tabular intermediate logics are intermediate logics characterized by finite posets treated as Kripke frames. For a poset $\mathbb{P}$, let $L(\mathbb{P})$ denote the corresponding tabular intermediate logic. We investigate the complexity of the following decision problem $\mathsf{LogContain}$: given two finite posets $\mathbb P$ and $\mathbb Q$, decide whether $L(\mathbb P) \subseteq L(\mathbb Q)$. By Jankov's and de Jongh's theorem, the problem $\mathsf{LogContain}$ is related to the problem…

On the recognition problem for limits of entropy functions
Geva Yashfe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06302 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06302

On the recognition problem for limits of entropy functions
We prove that there is no algorithm to decide whether a given integer vector is in the closure of the entropic cone $\overline{Γ_{n}^{*}}$. Equivalently, there is no decision procedure to determine whether a given integer-valued function $h:\mathcal{P}(\{1,\ldots,n\})\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0}$ is a pointwise limit of joint entropy functions. In other words, given such an $h$, it is undecidable whether for all $\varepsilon > 0$ there exists a finite probability space $(Ω,P)$ with random va…

Gr\"obner crystal structures
Abigail Price, Ada Stelzer, Alexander Yong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07560

Gröbner crystal structures
We develop a theory of bicrystalline ideals, synthesizing Gröbner basis techniques and Kashiwara's crystal theory. This provides a unified algebraic, combinatorial, and computational approach that applies to ideals of interest, old and new. The theory concerns ideals in the coordinate ring of matrices, stable under the action of some Levi group, whose quotients admit standard bases equipped with a crystal structure. We construct an effective algorithm to decide if an ideal is bicrystalline. Wh…

When did everyone decide to call those public touchscreen monoliths “totems”?
I’ve been calling them electro-stela

Evaluating Rapid Makespan Predictions for Heterogeneous Systems with Programmable Logic
Martin Wilhelm, Franz Freitag, Max Tzschoppe, Thilo Pionteck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06998

Evaluating Rapid Makespan Predictions for Heterogeneous Systems with Programmable Logic
Heterogeneous computing systems, which combine general-purpose processors with specialized accelerators, are increasingly important for optimizing the performance of modern applications. A central challenge is to decide which parts of an application should be executed on which accelerator or, more generally, how to map the tasks of an application to available devices. Predicting the impact of a change in a task mapping on the overall makespan is non-trivial. While there are very capable simulat…

I can't decide how to quote this because @… has too many bangers
https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html

Simplicial clustering using the $\alpha$--transformation
Michail Tsagris, Nikolaos Kontemeniotis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05945 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Simplicial clustering using the $α$--transformation
We introduce two simplicial clustering approaches for compositional data, that are adaptations of the $K$--means and of the Gaussian mixture models algorithms, by employing the $α$--transformation. By utilizing clustering validation indices we can decide on the number of clusters and choose the value of $α$ for the $K$--means, while for the model-based clustering approach information criteria complete this task. extensive simulation studies compare the performance of these two approaches and …

Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Configuration Allocation in Pre-Production Testing
Yu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05147 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Configuration Allocation in Pre-Production Testing
Ensuring reliability in modern software systems requires rigorous pre-production testing across highly heterogeneous and evolving environments. Because exhaustive evaluation is infeasible, practitioners must decide how to allocate limited testing resources across configurations where failure probabilities may drift over time. Existing combinatorial optimization approaches are static, ad hoc, and poorly suited to such non-stationary settings. We introduce a novel reinforcement learning (RL) fram…

What’s scariest is that the West has abandoned any pretense of caring about human rights or moving beyond its colonial mindset. We are told that genocide is fine, actually, and that those who commit it are our friends. We are told to just let go and become Nazis. It is in this moment that we must decide whether we are to embrace our humanity and resist this psychopathic vision for our species and take the first steps towards a future in which humanity explores its potential among the stars o…

Degree Realization by Bipartite Cactus Graphs
Amotz Bar-Noy, Toni Bohnlein, David Peleg, Yingli Ran, Dror Rawitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06194 https://a…

Degree Realization by Bipartite Cactus Graphs
The \textsc{Degree Realization} problem with respect to a graph family $\mathcal{F}$ is defined as follows. The input is a sequence $d$ of $n$ positive integers, and the goal is to decide whether there exists a graph $G \in \mathcal{F}$ whose degrees correspond to $d$. The main challenges are to provide a precise characterization of all the sequences that admit a realization in $\mathcal{F}$ and to design efficient algorithms that construct one of the possible realizations, if one exists. Thi…

#maga #guns #transrights

"Today, over two and a half million websites have chosen to completely disallow AI training through our managed robots.txt feature or our managed rule blocking AI Crawlers. Every Cloudflare customer is now able to selectively decide which declared AI crawlers are able to access their content in accordance with their business objectives.
We expected a change in bot and crawler behavior based on these new features, and we expect that the techniques bot operators use to evade detecti…

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

#privacy

Measuring Information Richness in Product Images: Implications for Online Sales
Zhu Yuting, Cao Xinyu, Su Yuzhuo, Ma Yongbin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04541 https://

Measuring Information Richness in Product Images: Implications for Online Sales
A common challenge for e-commerce sellers is to decide what product images to display on online shopping sites. In this paper, we propose and validate a novel metric, k-value, to quantify the information richness of an image set, and we further investigate its effect on consumers' purchase decisions. We leverage patch-level embeddings from Vision Transformers (ViT) and apply k-means clustering to identify distinct visual features, defining k-value as the number of clusters. An online experiment…

@… @… or add a partition for data, in case you decide to try another distro.

All-Male Committee Will Decide South Carolina Abortion Ban
https://jessica.substack.com/p/all-male-committee-will-decide-south

Sometimes you see an STL and it looks simple but has a restrictive license so you decide to make your own version...
This is a bike reflector in three parts that screws together (after adding reflective tape to one part) and hides an Apple AirTag inside. It then zip ties to your seat post.
(Needs a few more tweaks before I share it.)
#STL

Covariants and simultaneous diagonalization of pairs of ternary quadratic forms, and binary quartic forms
Stanley Yao Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03848 https://

Covariants and simultaneous diagonalization of pairs of ternary quadratic forms, and binary quartic forms
In this paper we prove a correspondence between a canonical degree six covariant of binary quartic forms $F$ and a cubic covariant of a pair of ternary quadratic forms $(f_A, f_B)$. In the process we obtain a canonical way to diagonalize a pair of $n$-ary quadratic forms over any field $K$ of characteristic zero. As a corollary, we give a precise criterion to decide whether a pair of $n$-ary quadratic forms over $\mathbb{Q}$ is diagonalizable over $\mathbb{Q}$.

Remarkable that this article coincides with the phishing attack spam pummeling instances that uses fake age verification as its attack surface. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age…

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

3-INT defensive TSSAA football performance among Ponce Law Nashville Boys Athlete of Week choices https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/09/08/tennessee-high-school-football-ponce-law-nashville/8597668…

They learned from the Grifter-in-Chief.
Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-jan-6-rioters-compensation.html

Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
One of the rioters’ lawyers wants to create a panel that would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions.

Data-driven solar forecasting enables near-optimal economic decisions
Zhixiang Dai, Minghao Yin, Xuanhong Chen, Alberto Carpentieri, Jussi Leinonen, Boris Bonev, Chengzhe Zhong, Thorsten Kurth, Jingan Sun, Ram Cherukuri, Yuzhou Zhang, Ruihua Zhang, Farah Hariri, Xiaodong Ding, Chuanxiang Zhu, Dake Zhang, Yaodan Cui, Yuxi Lu, Yue Song, Bin He, Jie Chen, Yixin Zhu, Chenheng Xu, Maofeng Liu, Zeyi Niu, Wanpeng Qi, Xu Shan, Siyuan Xian, Ning Lin, Kairui Feng

Data-driven solar forecasting enables near-optimal economic decisions
Solar energy adoption is critical to achieving net-zero emissions. However, it remains difficult for many industrial and commercial actors to decide on whether they should adopt distributed solar-battery systems, which is largely due to the unavailability of fast, low-cost, and high-resolution irradiance forecasts. Here, we present SunCastNet, a lightweight data-driven forecasting system that provides 0.05$^\circ$, 10-minute resolution predictions of surface solar radiation downwards (SSRD) up …

Her, standing in front of opened fridge and kitchen cupboard: "Help me with a counting rhyme, I can't decide what to make for dinner!"
Me: "Why can't you decide like an adult?"
Her: "My nearest dice set is too far away..."
Me: "I gave you a small travel dice set to keep in your pockets for stuff like this."
Her: "They are in my backpack, with the emergency medical supplies."
Yes, I went to get the dice.

Egal zu welchem Thema, es wird immer unterschiedliche Positionen von Personen geben, die zu diesem Thema als Experte gelten. In diesen widersprüchlichen Meinungen öffnet sich ein Raum, in dem eine eigene Stimme entstehen kann:
"Nothing prepared me better for adult intellectual life than getting two sets of contradictory feedback on every essay I wrote for those classes, because I had to decide, over and over, what to make of these expressions of my teachers’ authority. Yes, they k…

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…

A bipartisan measure to block the Trump administration’s lethal strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug smugglers fell short in the Senate on Wednesday night,
in what Democratic lawmakers framed as a failure of Congress to assert its constitutional role to decide whether the country enters war.

In the past two months, the U.S. military has struck at least four boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 21 people.
Military officials in multiple classified briefings have not defin…

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate
A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

Mastodon says it does not "have the means to apply age verification" to its services and it's up to server admins to observe local laws in places they operate (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mast

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

Twisted conjugacy in $BS(n, 1)$
Oorna Mitra, Mallika Roy, Enric Ventura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04397

Twisted conjugacy in $BS(n, 1)$
In this article, we solve the twisted conjugacy problem for solvable Baumslag--Solitar groups $BS(n,1)$, i.e., we propose an algorithm which, given two elements $u,v \in BS(n,1)$ and an automorphism $φ\in \Aut(BS(n,1))$, decides whether $v=(wφ)^{-1} u w$ for some $w\in BS(n,1)$. Also we prove that the automorphism group $\Aut(BS(n,1))$ is orbit decidable -- given two words on the generators $u,v\in F(X)$, decide whether the corresponding elements $u,v\in G$ can be mapped to each other by some…

Brutal similes
Using #AI is an ethical choice.
I know that there cases when an #LLM could make my job easier. Which doesn't mean I'll use one. Just like I won't be buying cheap junk gadgets that could help me with some random stuff a bunch of times before they'll end up on a trash pile.
Yes, sometimes I am curious what an LLM could come up with. But then, there are people who are curious how many donuts they can eat before throwing up. A waste of good donuts.
What world would you rather live in? One where you put a little more effort in your job? Or one where LLM helps with with your job, but you can't enjoy your free time anymore because the capitalists are using LLMs to turn every single aspect of your life into a nightmare, and eventually your employer just makes you do more and more until you're thrown out? But at least you will get a monthly trial of a statistical "friend" to "talk" about your trouble to.
Yeah, you can claim that training models does the most harm, and that's already happened, so not using them doesn't change much, and all the energy spent on it would be wasted. Or use the traditional "others" fallacy — others will use it anyway, others will fuel the vicious circle, so why renounce convenience. It's like when you learn that your dinner is human meat, and you decide to eat it anyway, because not eating it won't bring that human back to life, and if it's wasted, then their death will be for naught.
#AntiCapitalism

Explore Briefly, Then Decide: Mitigating LLM Overthinking via Cumulative Entropy Regulation
Tianyi Jiang, Yi Bin, Yujuan Ding, Kainian Zhu, Fei Ma, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02249

Explore Briefly, Then Decide: Mitigating LLM Overthinking via Cumulative Entropy Regulation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities on complex problems using long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, they often suffer from overthinking, meaning generating unnecessarily lengthy reasoning steps for simpler problems. This issue may degrade the efficiency of the models and make them difficult to adapt the reasoning depth to the complexity of problems. To address this, we introduce a novel metric Token Entropy Cumulative Average (TECA), which mea…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: I'm very sorry about your mother. She was a remarkable woman. You lie here and rest while we decide what's to be done.
VERON: Thank you. [She lies down, Blake and Gan move away from her.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/271 B7B5

Liberals: You have a choice. When Trump comes for you, you can buckle and comply or you can radicalize and fight harder. Decide now what you're going to do, because a lot of us will die if you decide to save yourself.
We will win in the end, with or without you. But, if you survive, you will always know which choice you made and you will have to live with it.
#USPol

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Universal quantification makes automatic structures hard to decide
Christoph Haase, Rados{\l}aw Pi\'orkowski

Man I was just gonna buy a slightly upgraded motor for my bike but now I realize all the motors are on sale and now I have to decide TSDZ8 vs BBS02

#UkAcademia question: I see references to the "REF" a lot, including needing to publish papers that get a specific REF "rating" like 3* or 4*. Anyone knows what these stars mean and how do they decide how many stars your papers get?
#Academia

I hate when I decide to pull an all nighter, I feel like I have infinite extra time and suddenly “oh shit I have to leave in two hours why is this so short”

Flex and superflex rankings for Week 6 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46104825/fantasy-football-superflex-rankings-2025-qb-rb-wr-te

Who knew that Blue Laws were still a thing? I remember when WV repealed theirs. I don't think The State should be telling a business that it can't be open on Sundays. That's a religious limitation. Let the public decide. And is Sunday even the Sabbath?
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p…

New Jersey town sues mall for ignoring Blue Laws and selling merch on Sundays
Paramus is suing the nation’s second-largest mall, American Dream, for keeping its stores open on the Sabbath

How Pinball Wizards Simulate a Turing Machine
Rosemary Adejoh, Andreas Jakoby, Sneha Mohanty, Christian Schindelhauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02560 https://

How Pinball Wizards Simulate a Turing Machine
We introduce and investigate the computational complexity of a novel physical problem known as the Pinball Wizard problem. It involves an idealized pinball moving through a maze composed of one-way gates (outswing doors), plane walls, parabolic walls, moving plane walls, and bumpers that cause acceleration or deceleration. Given the initial position and velocity of the pinball, the task is to decide whether it will hit a specified target point. By simulating a two-stack pushdown automaton, we…

Mastodon says it does not "have the means to apply age verification" to its services and it's up to server admins to observe local laws in places they operate (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mast

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

I hear they're finally bringing quote toots!
Thank goodness. I've always enjoyed this method of engaging with and promoting others.
And I also respect those who decide to turn the feature off for themselves. That's valid too.

"AI will take over the world."

This can mean two things:

1. "AI" will become self-aware and decide to control humans.

2. Gen-slop and deepfakes will dominate available content, leading to deskilling, human abuse and eco-harm.

The first idea has no basis, but it's fair to worry about the second.

Bought two books for a 5 h train ride back home. Can't decide which one to read.

This whole opinion, while well-meaning and bringing up generally good points (we humans can decide what technology we research and how we use it)—misses the point: there will not be an “AGI” that derives from current “AI” technology.
What the “AI” companies are proposing and the media is accepting at face value is like saying ever more realistic graphics in computer games will suddenly reach some threshold and the graphics will become the real world.
It’s nonsense.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/jul/21/human-level-artificial-intelligence

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

"Notice: This car park will be locked at 7pm Mon-Sat."
You get there at 8pm on Sunday and the gates are open, so you decide your interpretation of the rules is "Of course it'll stay open since there's that big concert in Custom House Square, and there's loads of cars here already."
Huge thanks to the guys who helped me squeeze the G31 through an improbably small gap to get out of the locked car park tonight!
Also, Belfast City Council, do bet…

Jerry Jones likely to appeal NFL $250,000 fine after MetLife Stadium gesture with fans https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/08/jerry-jones-appealing-250k-nfl-fine-for-metl…

“On labor and AI”
https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/on-labor-and-ai/
“[M]aybe large numbers of us should come to a common conclusion that these bubble-boy charlatans shouldn’t just get to decide that the world’s economy (not to mention its ecology) sh…

On labor and AI
Happy Labor/Labour Day/bank holiday to you. Seems like a good day to talk about the elephant in the room again. The predominant storyline around labor, of...

'Borders must not be changed by force' — European leaders back Trump's peace effort but say Ukraine must decide its territory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/borders-must-not-be-changed.html

31 Days of Action – All August!
Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.
Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.
Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?
https://

China and its media remained quiet about the TikTok deal, a notable silence as China can still decide the app's fate; Chinese social media chatter was limited (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/china-stays-conspic…

China stays conspicuously quiet after Trump’s TikTok deal declaration
U.S. President Donald Trump says that he’s received Beijing's nod on a deal that would see TikTok stay alive in the U.S.

Colts coach Shane Steichen hoping to decide on Indianapolis' starting QB 'sooner rather than later'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-c

Micah Parsons trade request intrigues many NFL teams, including disastrous option https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-trade-request-intrigues-many-nfl-teams-disastrous-option-dallas-cowboys

Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0,
we took the wrong path.
We’re now at a new crossroads,
one where we must decide if AI will be used for the betterment or to the detriment of society.
How can we learn from the mistakes of the past?
First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.
The time to decide the go…

Kind of hard to feel empathy for Russian soldiers being scammed by Russian cops when this is how they transfer blame.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5rm41g34qo
Punching down is the Russian, and now American, theme.

SAP, whose cloud sales are set to reach €22B this year, nearly triple 2019 levels, faces competition from other tech giants as it targets AI apps for the future (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

How did the Browns decide on starting QB No. 41? Inside their 'intentional' methods https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46468418/method-cleveland-browns-nfl-quarterback-development-dillon-gabriel-she…

On Saturday, the Oakland Ballers manager Aaron Miles will cede his decision-making duties to an AI.
It is believed to be the first time a professional sports team will be managed by an AI in a regular-season game.
The AI will determine most of the regular in-game decisions a typical manager would make.
It isn’t choosing the starting pitcher since the Ballers are on a set rotation,
but the AI will create the starting lineup, decide when pitchers need to be replaced and …

A shutdown will give Trump more power over federal spending
Under an extension of funding, the administration has far greater leeway to decide how to spend federal money than it does under normal operations.
When the government shuts down, Trump and the White House Office of Management and Budget will have the power to decide which agencies and offices would stay open and which would go offline until the deadlock is resolved.

That has lawmakers, especially Democrats, feel…

A shutdown would give Trump more power over federal spending
Congress is racing toward a government shutdown deadline, and Democrats worry the White House could have more control over spending either way.

A detainee at the Florida immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz
has been on hunger strike for at least nine days,
the latest in a string of detainees to allege being mistreated at the prison in the Everglades.
“Since my life no longer belongs to me, it’s up to them to decide whether I live or die,”
detainee Pedro Lorenzo Concepción, 44, told El País from inside the facility.
On July 22, he went on hunger strike and has collapsed multiple times …

Hunger strike at Alligator Alcatraz reaches Day 9 as inmate protests conditions
Detainees say they’ve faced unsanitary conditions inside hastily built facility in Florida Everglades

🗓️ 31 Days of Action Start TODAY
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:x7irsqqhp64woalar7obnnft/post/3lve3vwydqs22
This month, Congress is home
- meaning we have access.
We’re launching daily bite-sized actions to defend federal R…

Even though Trump has given them their freedom -- and has taken steps toward satisfying their desire for retribution,
🔥January 6th rioters are asking for more:
In the past several weeks, the rioters and their lawyers have made a concerted effort to push the administration into paying them
💥"restitution" for what they claim to be their unfair prosecutions.

Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
One of the rioters’ lawyers wants to create a panel that would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions.

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law
— the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state
— because it doesn’t have the means to do so.
The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users,
which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation.
Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.
The statement …

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.