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Ukrainian delegation to visit US for peace talks on Dec. 19-20, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/ukrainian-delegation-to-visit-us.html

"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber most delegations at COP30 climate talks in Brazil"
#Brazil #FossilFuels #Climate

One in 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, analysis finds
Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.

LLM Agents at the Roundtable: A Multi-Perspective and Dialectical Reasoning Framework for Essay Scoring
Jinhee Jang, Ayoung Moon, Minkyoung Jung, YoungBin Kim. Seung Jin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14834

LLM Agents at the Roundtable: A Multi-Perspective and Dialectical Reasoning Framework for Essay Scoring
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has brought a new paradigm to automated essay scoring (AES), a long-standing and practical application of natural language processing in education. However, achieving human-level multi-perspective understanding and judgment remains a challenge. In this work, we propose Roundtable Essay Scoring (RES), a multi-agent evaluation framework designed to perform precise and human-aligned scoring under a zero-shot setting. RES constructs evaluator agents bas…

PIC12F683 just has a few traces of dielectric and a few vias left before it's fully stripped to substrate.
Surprisingly, poly still seems fully intact. I'm not sure if any of my cleaning steps at the end will remove it, but it's quite firmly stuck down and I haven't seen *any* of it floating free yet. Some of the tungsten contacts have come off, which doesn't surprise me at all.
Now that all the oxide over the poly is gone the poly images are even sharper, alt…

Anyway, this is the video that prompted me to post this. The delight when they pull out their crochet book is so heartwarming 🥹 #YouTube #video #books

Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.

Hi @… — catching up on old episodes of Odd Lots, and delighted to hear you on it from 2016!

I am delighted that we now have a short summary video of our research lab (#ArsElectronica2025 online:

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And another couple of etch cycles on the PIC12F683 done.
On the home stretch, I've almost got the last of the dielectric off. But I don't want to be too aggressive because ideally I'd get a beauty shot of intact poly across the whole die first, *then* undercut the poly and get a substrate image.
So I'm still doing my usual 2 minutes etch, then image routine. It'll take as long as it takes.

The Ukrainian delegation is working almost around the clock, says Zelenskyy on peace talks #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/the-ukrainian-delegation-is-working.html…