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I just added a recipe for backing up your #Discourse using restic, and a bunch of other updates, to my guide to Discourse deployment, as part of working on deploying a new Discourse instance. A bunch of plugins that I used to recommend adding are now in the core, which simplified the install.

Agentic generative AI for media content discovery at the national football league
Henry Wang, Sirajus Salekin, Jake Lee, Ross Claytor, Shinan Zhang, Michael Chi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07297

Agentic generative AI for media content discovery at the national football league
Generative AI has unlocked new possibilities in content discovery and management. Through collaboration with the National Football League (NFL), we demonstrate how a generative-AI based workflow enables media researchers and analysts to query relevant historical plays using natural language rather than traditional filter-and-click interfaces. The agentic workflow takes a user query as input, breaks it into elements, and translates them into the underlying database query language. Accuracy and l…

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: Wait a minute, Orac-
ORAC: Disconnect. [The glasses tumble off the tray which begins to swoop around in the air.]
DAYNA: I don't believe that.
VILA: Try and convince me, will you? Please?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/228 …

The discretizations of the derivative by the continuous Galerkin and the discontinuous Galerkin methods are exactly the same
Bernardo Cockburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22587 h…

The discretizations of the derivative by the continuous Galerkin and the discontinuous Galerkin methods are exactly the same
In the framework of ODEs, we uncover a new link between the continuous Galerkin method (see Math. Comp. (1972), 26 (118 and 120), 415-426 and 881-891) and the discontinuous Galerkin method (see Mathematical Aspects of Finite elements in PDEs, (1974), 89-123), namely, that the discretizations of the derivative by these two methods are the same. A direct consequence of this result is the construction of a new elementwise post-processing of the approximate solution provided by the Discontinuous Ga…

OpenAI / ChatGPT is shit at UI #accessibility:
• https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/08/15/ai-effluential/
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Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: Gan, the aliens have linked their ship to our power source. I'm getting a very heavy power loss. I'll have to disconnect. You'll be all right, won't you?
GAN: [Nods] Yes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/454 B7B6

A New Subclass of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars at Extremely Low Metallicity
Young Sun Lee, Timothy C. Beers, Yutaka Hirai, Jihye Hong, Miji Jeong, Changmin Kim, Young Kwang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16510

A New Subclass of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars at Extremely Low Metallicity
We report the discovery of a new subclass of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, characterized by high absolute carbon abundances (A(C) > 7.39) and extremely low metallicity ([Fe/H] $<=$ -3.1) but notably lacking enhancements in neutron-capture elements, thus falling under the CEMP-no category. This population emerged from a detailed analysis of low-resolution spectroscopic data obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telesc…

High-Throughput Quantification of Altermagnetic Band Splitting
Ali Sufyan, Brahim Marfoua, J. Andreas Larsson, Erik van Loon, Rickard Armiento
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14729 h…

High-Throughput Quantification of Altermagnetic Band Splitting
Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive behavior gives rise to sizable spin splitting even in materials composed of light, earth-abundant elements, offering promising prospects for next-generation spintronics applications. Despite growing theoretical and experimental interest, the discovery of alte…