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Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

If you are a citizen of the EU and are concerned about government surveillance of our private chats, photographs and documents, it is important to take action before October. This tool: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ will easily enable you to draft an email to send to your MEPs.
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FreezeVLA: Action-Freezing Attacks against Vision-Language-Action Models
Xin Wang, Jie Li, Zejia Weng, Yixu Wang, Yifeng Gao, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang, Zuxuan Wu, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19870

FreezeVLA: Action-Freezing Attacks against Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are driving rapid progress in robotics by enabling agents to interpret multimodal inputs and execute complex, long-horizon tasks. However, their safety and robustness against adversarial attacks remain largely underexplored. In this work, we identify and formalize a critical adversarial vulnerability in which adversarial images can "freeze" VLA models and cause them to ignore subsequent instructions. This threat effectively disconnects the robot's digital min…

Whistlejacket is a Brand, Design and Communications Agency from the UK. They commissioned me to create illustrations and iconography, and build an interactive digital handbook for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio #Sustainability

"A group of about two hundred protestors, waving the union jack and St George's flags and carrying placards opposing the government's digital ID plans, had to be separated from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators by police."
That is a sentence that I never expected to read!
https://www.bb…

Arrests at protest supporting Palestine Action near Labour conference
Merseyside Police says arrests were made on suspicion of supporting the proscribed group.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
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- Ethical AI for Young Digital Citizens: A Call to Action on Privacy Governance
Austin Shouli, Ankur Barthwal, Molly Campbell, Ajay Kumar Shrestha

SAG-AFTRA praises California Governor Gavin Newsom for signing new legislation to protect a performer's likeness, saying it takes action "against AI abuse" (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/sag-aftra-statement-new-law-agai…

SAG-AFTRA Praises Governor Newsom for Taking Action 'Against AI Abuse' With New Law: 'California Stands With Performers'
SAG-AFTRA voiced their appreciation for California lawmakers on Monday, after new legislation was signed to protect a performer's likeness.

If you want to understand Musk, give this a listen. Great podcast limited series from the CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor

The Making of Musk: Understood | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in the heart of the action. We value your input! Fill out our listener survey here [https://cbc.ca/UnderstoodSurvey]. Season 1 - The Naked Emperor: the rise and fall of bitcoin king Sam Bankman-Fried. Seas…

💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…

We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament

Knowledge Graph Completion for Action Prediction on Situational Graphs -- A Case Study on Household Tasks
Mariam Arustashvili, J\"org Deigm\"oller, Heiko Paulheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13675

Knowledge Graph Completion for Action Prediction on Situational Graphs -- A Case Study on Household Tasks
Knowledge Graphs are used for various purposes, including business applications, biomedical analyses, or digital twins in industry 4.0. In this paper, we investigate knowledge graphs describing household actions, which are beneficial for controlling household robots and analyzing video footage. In the latter case, the information extracted from videos is notoriously incomplete, and completing the knowledge graph for enhancing the situational picture is essential. In this paper, we show that, wh…

Universal initial state preparation for first quantized quantum simulations
Jack S. Baker, Gaurav Saxena, Thi Ha Kyaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07278 https://

Universal initial state preparation for first quantized quantum simulations
Preparing symmetry-adapted initial states is a principal bottleneck in first-quantized quantum simulation. We present a universal approach that efficiently maps any polynomial-size superposition of occupation-number configurations to the first-quantized representation on a digital quantum computer. The method exploits the Jordan--Schwinger Lie algebra homomorphism, which identifies number-conserving second-quantized operators with their first-quantized action and induces an equivariant bijectio…

EU Digital Regulation and Guatemala: AI, 5G, and Cybersecurity
Victor Lopez Juarez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08315 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08315…

EU Digital Regulation and Guatemala: AI, 5G, and Cybersecurity
The paper examines how EU rules in AI, 5G, and cybersecurity operate as transnational governance and shape policy in Guatemala. It outlines the AI Act's risk approach, the 5G Action Plan and Security Toolbox, and the cybersecurity regime built on ENISA, NIS2, the Cybersecurity Act, and the Cyber Resilience Act. It traces extraterritorial channels such as the Brussels effect, private standards, supply chain clauses, and data transfer controls. Guatemala specific impacts include SME compliance co…