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🍻 Online discrimination fuels drinking by Hispanic college students
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-online-discrimination-fuels-hispanic-college.html

Online discrimination fuels drinking by Hispanic college students
Hispanic college students who encounter racial or ethnic discrimination on social media are more likely to turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, according to a study led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.

Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/head-of-workplace-rights-agency-urges-white-men-to-report-discrimination

Exploratory Movement Strategies for Texture Discrimination with a Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor
Xingchen Xu, Ao Li, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14954 https:/…

Exploratory Movement Strategies for Texture Discrimination with a Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor
We propose a neuromorphic tactile sensing framework for robotic texture classification that is inspired by human exploratory strategies. Our system utilizes the NeuroTac sensor to capture neuromorphic tactile data during a series of exploratory motions. We first tested six distinct motions for texture classification under fixed environment: sliding, rotating, tapping, as well as the combined motions: sliding+rotating, tapping+rotating, and tapping+sliding. We chose sliding and sliding+rotating …

A writer argues that since 2014, DEI practices led to discrimination against white male millennials for entry-level and mid-level roles in Hollywood and media (Jacob Savage/Compact)
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-section-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p73#a251016p73

« Vous n’êtes pas Français » : la discrimination vécue par ce stagiaire ...
https://youtube.com/shorts/-IaW2AkU-UY?si=nlIOzjp6TyWB6Xl4

"In a world beset by war, genocide, systemic discrimination, and climate catastrophe, we need good news. Donyelle McCray offers the opportunity to hear and see the embodiment of good news emanating from marginalized voices—especially Black women, laypeople, artists, and activists."
From the Christian Century review of the new book by YDS professor Donyelle McCray, "Is it a Sermon?"

Preaching outside the box
Donyelle McCray takes readers on a tour of the edges of homiletics, exploring Black Americans’ gospel proclamation in various...

Quark-Gluon tagging performance at the High-Luminosity LHC using constituent-based transformer models
F. L. Castillo, J Lev\^eque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14759 https://

Quark-Gluon tagging performance at the High-Luminosity LHC using constituent-based transformer models
Jet constituents provide a more detailed description of a jet's radiation pattern than global observables. In simulations for ATLAS Run-2 data (2015-2018), transformer-based taggers trained on low-level inputs outperformed traditional methods using high-level variables with conventional neural networks for quark-gluon discrimination. With the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), which will deliver higher luminosity and energy, the ATLAS detector will be upgraded with an extended Inner Tracker…

Does everyone have a price? Understanding people's attitude towards online and offline price discrimination
Joost Poort, Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08246

Does everyone have a price? Understanding people's attitude towards online and offline price discrimination
Online stores can present a different price to each customer. Such algorithmic personalised pricing can lead to advanced forms of price discrimination based on the characteristics and behaviour of individual consumers. We conducted two consumer surveys among a representative sample of the Dutch population (N=1233 and N=1202), to analyse consumer attitudes towards a list of examples of price discrimination and dynamic pricing. A vast majority finds online price discrimination unfair and unaccept…

A compressed code for memory discrimination
Dale Zhou, Sharon Mina Noh, Nora C Harhen, Nidhi V Banavar, C. Brock Kirwan, Michael A Yassa, Aaron M Bornstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10791

A compressed code for memory discrimination
The ability to discriminate similar visual stimuli is an important index of memory function. This ability is widely thought to be supported by expanding the dimensionality of relevant neural codes, such that neural representations for similar stimuli are maximally distinct, or ``separated.'' An alternative hypothesis is that discrimination is supported by lossy compression of visual inputs, efficiently coding sensory information by discarding seemingly irrelevant details. A benefit of compressi…

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
India’s largest Hindu far-right organization,
initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year
Squire Patton Boggs,
one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S.,
registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign
Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115718541388263451
Yep.
Also, Trump's very first lawsuit was about he and his father discriminating against black people trying to rent apartments. He's trying to make it so discrimination aga…

Winsome Earle-Sears is too young to be this much of a doddering old person. @… https://fed.b…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
SPANBERGER: “She doesn’t think gay couples should be allowed to marry.” WINSOME EARLE-SEARS: “That’s not discrimination.” 🤔 SPANBERGER: “She thinks you can fire someone for being gay.” EARLE-SEARS: “That’s not discrimination.” 🤔🤔 #VAGov

Religion Clause: No Religious Discrimination Shown in Enforcement of Septic Tank Code
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/no-religious-discrimination-shown-in.html

"Women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewable energy sector, IRENA report finds"
#Women #Energy #Renewables

Women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewable energy sector, IRENA report finds
New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows women account for only 19% of renewable energy senior leadership positions globally and almost half of the women surveyed report some form of gender-based discrimination in the workplace.

The #EV roaming system in Europe is increasingly being hit by hidden fees and absurd price discrimination.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For… | Jaap Burger
In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For an operator, it is a method of attracting more customers to its stations. In recent years, a clear trend has emerged: providers who want to offer roaming at other charging points to their own customers, but at the same time keep roaming customers from others out with absurd price mark-ups and tari…

It might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-rule-restores-equal-protection-all-civil-rights-enforcement

Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded in the principle of equal treatment under the law by eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations.

Apple Music's "Discovery" used to be pretty good - but I think they have now attached it to an AI that has no taste or discrimination.

Black Google workers one step closer to $50 million settlement in discrimination lawsuit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/black-google-workers-one-step-closer-to-50-million-settlement-in-discrimination-lawsuit/

Strengthening legal protection against discrimination by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02859 https://…

Strengthening legal protection against discrimination by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Algorithmic decision-making and other types of artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to predict who will commit crime, who will be a good employee, who will default on a loan, etc. However, algorithmic decision-making can also threaten human rights, such as the right to non-discrimination. The paper evaluates current legal protection in Europe against discriminatory algorithmic decisions. The paper shows that non-discrimination law, in particular through the concept of indirect discriminatio…

Efficient and optimal quantum state discrimination via quantum belief propagation
Christophe Piveteau, Joseph M. Renes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19441 https://

Efficient and optimal quantum state discrimination via quantum belief propagation
We present an efficient quantum algorithm for a structured state discrimination problem we call the subspace decoding task. Building on this, we show that the algorithm enables efficient and optimal decoding of certain families of structured classical linear codes transmitted over binary-input classical-quantum pure-state channels. Such decoders can substantially enhance the performance of quantum algorithms based on Regev's reduction, such as decoded quantum interferometry. In particular, we o…

Terrible, racism and discrimination are institutionalized in the US now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.WYI1.WPh…

U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
Officials told staff members at two student-run publications, called Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice, that they were not compliant with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on diversity programs.

Perceived Fairness in Networks
Arthur Charpentier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12028 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12028…

Perceived Fairness in Networks
The usual definitions of algorithmic fairness focus on population-level statistics, such as demographic parity or equal opportunity. However, in many social or economic contexts, fairness is not perceived globally, but locally, through an individual's peer network and comparisons. We propose a theoretical model of perceived fairness networks, in which each individual's sense of discrimination depends on the local topology of interactions. We show that even if a decision rule satisfies standard …

Trump DOJ Argues Key Anti-Discrimination Law Doesn’t Apply to Federal Workers | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-07/trump-doj-argues-key-anti-discrimination-law-doesnt-apply-federal-workers

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist
who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel,
which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination"
cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
https://www.

Replaced article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
[1/2]:
- Discrimination in machine learning algorithms
Roberta Pappad\`a, Francesco Pauli

The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence" is a declaration of war on the so-called “radical left, and accuses any critic of law enforcement, or gov't activities of basically fomenting “violent revolution.”
The Trump administration’s designation today of antifa as a terrorist group allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of #antifa

Trump’s War on America
Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.

Price discrimination, algorithmic decision-making, and European non-discrimination law
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23851 https://

Price discrimination, algorithmic decision-making, and European non-discrimination law
Our society can benefit immensely from algorithmic decision-making and similar types of artificial intelligence. But algorithmic decision-making can also have discriminatory effects. This paper examines that problem, using online price differentiation as an example of algorithmic decision-making. With online price differentiation, a company charges different people different prices for identical products, based on information the company has about those people. The main question in this paper i…

Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/opinion/immigration-enforcement-latino-discrimination.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p38#a251027p38

The development of a high granular crystal calorimeter prototype of VLAST
Yanshuo Zhang, Qian Chen, Dengyi Chen, Jianguo Liu, Yiming Hu, Yunlong Zhang, Yifeng Wei, Zhongtao Shen, Changqing Feng, Jianhua Guo, Shubin Liu, Guangshun Huang, Xiaolian Wang, Zizong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24851

The development of a high granular crystal calorimeter prototype of VLAST
Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope (VLAST) is the next-generation flagship space observatory for high-energy gamma-ray detection proposed by China. The observation energy range covers from MeV to TeV and beyond, with acceptance of 10 m^2sr. The calorimeter serves as a crucial subdetector of VLAST, responsible for high-precision energy measurement and electron/proton discrimination. This discrimination capability is essential for accurately identifying gamma-ray events among the backgroun…

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent:
the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

Predicting the single-site and multi-site event discrimination power of dual-phase time projection chambers
A. B. M. R. Sazzad, C. A. Hardy, X. Dai, J. Xu, B. Lenardo, F. Sutanto, N. Antipa, J. Koertzen, P. John, A. Akinin, T. Pershing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02258

Predicting the single-site and multi-site event discrimination power of dual-phase time projection chambers
Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) are widely used in searches for rare dark matter and neutrino interactions, in part because of their excellent position reconstruction capability in 3D. Despite their millimeter-scale resolution along the charge drift axis, xenon TPCs face challenges in resolving single-site (SS) and multi-site (MS) interactions in the transverse plane. In this paper, we build a generic TPC model with an idealized light-based signal readout, and use Fisher Inform…

They're doing to America what they did to Christianity (Bill McKibben/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p35#a251123p35

Sixty years ago, the United States abolished immigration restrictions based on nationality alone.
By 1965, such discrimination had become an embarrassment.
In an emotional ceremony by the Statue of Liberty, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that the legislation he was signing “
corrects a cruel and enduring wrong”
and makes Americans “truer to ourselves both as a country and as a people.”
❌Now the Trump administration is reviving nationality-based discriminat…

Opinion | Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Be Illegal
Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.SC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SC/new
[1/1]:
- On Explaining Proxy Discrimination and Unfairness in Individual Decisions Made by AI Systems
Belona Sonna, Alban Grastien

Stable and Interpretable Jet Physics with IRC-Safe Equivariant Feature Extraction
Partha Konar, Vishal S. Ngairangbam, Michael Spannowsky, Deepanshu Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22059

Stable and Interpretable Jet Physics with IRC-Safe Equivariant Feature Extraction
Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in jet classification tasks, yet a key challenge remains: understanding what these models learn and how their features relate to known QCD observables. Improving interpretability is essential for building robust and trustworthy machine learning tools in collider physics. To address this challenge, we investigate graph neural networks for quark-gluon discrimination, systematically incorporating physics-motivated inductive biases. In particular, we de…

Whistleblowers Say Trump Administration Imposed ‘Strict Gag Order’ On Fair Housing Attorneys https://thedissenter.org/whistleblowers-say-trump-administration-imposed-strict-gag-order-on-fair-housing-attorneys/

'Devastating': Judge rules Trump's anti-discrimination agency engaged in discrimination - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-2674231415/

Texas seeks Supreme Court order to use a congressional map judges held is likely racially biased (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-trump-republicans-discrimination-c1bbf88e2a1f7d49cda512b8ef165750
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p129#a251121p129

Replaced article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
[1/1]:
- Unambiguous discrimination of high harmonic generation mechanisms in solids
Graham G. Brown, Rui E. F. Silva, \'Alvaro Jim\'enez-Gal\'an, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, M…

PhotonIDs: ML-Powered Photon Identification System for Dark Count Elimination
Karl C. Linne (Kai Li), Sho Uemura, Yue Ji, Andrew Karmen, Allen Zang, Alex Kolar, Ian Chin, Martin Di Federico, Gustavo Cancelo, Orlando Quaranta, Debashri Roy, Tian Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26315

PhotonIDs: ML-Powered Photon Identification System for Dark Count Elimination
Reliable single photon detection is the foundation for practical quantum communication and networking. However, today's superconducting nanowire single photon detector(SNSPD) inherently fails to distinguish between genuine photon events and dark counts, leading to degraded fidelity in long-distance quantum communication. In this work, we introduce PhotonIDs, a machine learning-powered photon identification system that is the first end-to-end solution for real-time discrimination between photons…

The Trump administration plans to slash refugee admissions to a record low level in the upcoming year,
reserving a bulk of the limited slots for white Afrikaners fro
m South Africa and others facing so-called “unjust discrimination”
https://www…

Trump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low
Many of the slots would go to white South Africans and others facing “unjust discrimination,” according to people familiar with the matter and documents obtained by The New York Times.

Adaptive mechanical proofreading toward faithful clonal selection
Qing Xu, Shenshen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17422 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17422

Adaptive mechanical proofreading toward faithful clonal selection
To ensure faithful information transmission, cells utilize nonequilibrium drives to reduce errors. Kinetic proofreading is a classic mechanism known to sharpen ligand discrimination by T lymphocytes. It remains an open question whether the adaptive immune system relies solely on kinetic proofreading to boost fidelity. Here, we suggest an alternative: an enhanced form of mechanical proofreading (MPR) in which adaptive force exertion via dynamic cell-cell contact allows faithful selection of high…

Quantum sensing of arbitrary magnetic signals with molecular spins
M. Lanza, C. Bonizzoni, O. Mironova, F. Santanni, A. Nicolini, A. Ghirri, A. Cornia, M. Affronte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17144

Quantum sensing of arbitrary magnetic signals with molecular spins
Molecular spins offer a promising platform for quantum sensing, particularly in organic, supramolecular or biological environments. Detection of periodic magnetic fields has been demonstrated with molecular spins ($S$ = 1/2) using manipulation protocols synchronized with the probed field. In this work, we develop two quantum sensing protocols that enable discrimination between different time-dependent magnetic field signals, without synchronization. These are based on the Hahn echo sequence and…

Assessing Human Rights Risks in AI: A Framework for Model Evaluation
Vyoma Raman, Camille Chabot, Betsy Popken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05519 https://arx…

Assessing Human Rights Risks in AI: A Framework for Model Evaluation
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements outline numerous inalienable rights that apply across geopolitical boundaries. As generative AI becomes increasingly prevalent, it poses risks to human rights such as non-discrimination, health, and security, which are also central concerns for AI researchers focused on fairness and safety. We contribute to the field of algorithmic auditing by presenting a framework to computationally assess human rights risk. Drawing …

Amazon accused of denying workplace accommodations for pregnant and disabled staff | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-new-jersey-discrimination-pregnant-disabled-workers-b2850463.html

Harmeet Dhillon, a former Trump lawyer placed in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,
bragged to the Wall Street Journal that she “wakes up around 6am and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination …
After spotting ‘a list of new horrors,’ she said,
‘I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking.’”
Dhillon’s office has been bleeding staff, since experienced lawyers are largely disinclined to waste…

The triumph of bullshit
Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

Spatial-mode demultiplexing for quantum-inspired superresolution experiments
Nickolay Erin Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Spatial-mode demultiplexing for quantum-inspired superresolution experiments
Conventional optical imaging is limited by diffraction, preventing discrimination of closely spaced incoherent sources. Inspired by quantum parameter estimation, this thesis explores spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) as a method to overcome this limit by projecting light onto an orthonormal mode basis. In this work, we design and experimentally validate a practical implementation of spatial-mode demultiplexing via Multi-Plane Light Conversion (MPLC).

we are the clapton, always anti-fascist, fuck the terf FA, LET THEM PLAY
#claptoncfc #ccfc #ftfa #fedifc

Regulating Online Algorithmic Pricing: A Comparative Study of Privacy and Data Protection Laws in the EU and US
Zihao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24345 https://

Regulating Online Algorithmic Pricing: A Comparative Study of Privacy and Data Protection Laws in the EU and US
The emergence of big data, AI and machine learning has allowed sellers and online platforms to tailor pricing for customers in real-time. While online algorithmic pricing can increase efficiency, market welfare, and optimize pricing strategies for sellers and companies, it poses a threat to the fundamental values of privacy, digital autonomy, and non-discrimination, raising legal and ethical concerns. On both sides of the Atlantic, legislators have endeavoured to regulate online algorithmic pri…

Ever heard of Eric Schmitt?
He’s the junior US senator from Missouri, a Republican, naturally.
He was elected in the 2022 election.
Prior to that he was the Show Me State’s attorney general.
In that position, he championed Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election and supported failed lawsuits that tried to overturn the election results.
He signed an amicus brief that contended LGBTQ people were not protected by workplace discrimination bans.
He filed l…