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Think about this, China manufactures around:
85% of the world’s solar panels
80% of batteries
68% of wind turbines
70% of electric vehicles, and
65% of energy storage systems

I posted the same solar facts on two social media platforms: One sparked discussion, the other, disinformation
One hundred solar panels per second reflects extraordinary technical progress. A platform that simply fosters noise over truth does not.

Fox News' host Brian Kilmeade says 'just kill 'em' during discussion about mentally ill homeless people (Oliver O'Connell/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-host-kill-homeless-b2826035.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p31#a250914p31

Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

A Naturalistic Court Discussion from 1685 - Simon Roper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUJDdZxIQ0

Hypothesis: Fediverse users have more capital/financial privileges than on other social media platforms. Let's test it!
How much cash (€) could you realistically make liquid within 1 year? Including selling car, flat, stocks etc. (excluding debts).
Anonymous & honest! (I'm having a discussion with a person from a marketing department...)
After voting, please boost/share to help get more responses! 😊

@…
Alt text for image in https://thepit.social/@peter/115196578752119158
Reddit post in r/OpenAl by u/me_z 3d:
Title: Wow... we've been burning money for 6 months
Discussion:
So... because I am such a hard worker, I spent my weekend going through our openai usage and we're at ~$1200/month.
I honestly thought that was just the cost of doing business then i actually looked at what we're using gpt-4 for, and its seriously a waste of money: extracting phone numbers from emails, checking if text contains profanity, reformatting json and literally just uppercasing text in one function.
I ended up just moving all the dumb stuff to gpt-4o-mini. Same exact outputs, bill dropped to ~$200
Am I an idiot? How much are you guys spending?
1,589 upvotes
326 replies
672 links or something?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419143/important-news
TL;DR - Boards.ie is losing traffic cause of Google’s algorithm and are now unsustainable.
They are re-enabling ads and will be launching paid membership next week. They need 2,000 paying members in order …

Important News!!
Dear Boards.ie Community, We want to have an open and honest conversation about the future of Boards.ie.

@… This seems like the kind of thing you'd like
https://bsky.app/profile/ukrainewarpod.bsky.social/post/3ltnhr654ks26

One of the issues in the discussion about (gen)AI is the level of anthropomorphizing (terrible word, i have to look it up everytime). AI is not "intelligent" as humans are. It is something different. In some aspects it is better then humans in other (often relatively simple things) incredibly worse. Also we draw wrong conclusions, being able to win a math olympiad is impressive but is not necessarily a sign of intelligence. I view AI as very capable world changing technology. That&…

Wisdom of the Crowd, Without the Crowd: A Socratic LLM for Asynchronous Deliberation on Perspectivist Data
Malik Khadar, Daniel Runningen, Julia Tang, Stevie Chancellor, Harmanpreet Kaur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09911

Wisdom of the Crowd, Without the Crowd: A Socratic LLM for Asynchronous Deliberation on Perspectivist Data
Data annotation underpins the success of modern AI, but the aggregation of crowd-collected datasets can harm the preservation of diverse perspectives in data. Difficult and ambiguous tasks cannot easily be collapsed into unitary labels. Prior work has shown that deliberation and discussion improve data quality and preserve diverse perspectives -- however, synchronous deliberation through crowdsourcing platforms is time-intensive and costly. In this work, we create a Socratic dialog system using…

PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Framework Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Yiran Rex Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06110 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Framework Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Table reasoning, including tabular QA and fact verification, often depends on annotated data or complex data augmentation, limiting flexibility and generalization. LLMs, despite their versatility, often underperform compared to simple supervised models. To approach these issues, we introduce PanelTR, a framework utilizing LLM agent scientists for robust table reasoning through a structured scientific approach. PanelTR's workflow involves agent scientists conducting individual investigations, en…

A 7-mag. #comet with a 3° tail nobody saw coming is grazing southern skies today: "SWAN 25B" (preliminary name) was discovered by amateurs in spacecraft images and seems to be in its 0.5 au perihelion today. Whether it's undergoing an outburst or will stay bright remains TBD: here's an image from Chile while a lot of discussion can be found in the threads https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/115202009 and https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/115202920

@… - let me know if a discussion in github is better.
i have a question about the general working with the branches. At the moment the last #pixelfed release is 5mo old.
You already merged some stuff into the DEV branch, but it's not released.
From …

We (Anja Lehmann, abhi shelat, and I) have uploaded a first draft of our proposal for EUDI pseudonyms as input to the debate that is currently happening between EU countries. What is a pseudonym, what requirements does it need to tackle, and how can we potentially solve it? We'd be happy to open the discussion for any kind of feedback.

Topic E - Pseudonyms, including User authentication mechanism · eu-digital-identity-wallet eudi-doc-architecture-and-reference-framework · Discussion #375
Welcome to the discussion on the Topic E - Pseudonyms, including User authentication mechanism, part of the ongoing development of the Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) for the European Di...

Thanks @… for the call-out on @… 🙇‍♂️ - "We Distribute Live — Sean Tilley — FediCon 2025"

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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Oh no. It's true: The mouse cursor image on Wayland is delayed by one frame. 😭
Proof: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/
Great explaination by @…@…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: Yes, a little.
AVON: There are no lighting systems that I can find. I suggest we leave here while there's enough light to see where we're going.
TARRANT: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/551 B7B5

Me pondering muting the word “Kirk” for the next while:
“But what if there’s some good discussion about TOS during that time?”

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future
Harshini Sri Ramulu, Helen Schmitt, Bogdan Rerich, Rachel Gonzalez Rodriguez, Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09351

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future
Ethical questions are discussed regularly in computer security. Still, researchers in computer security lack clear guidance on how to make, document, and assess ethical decisions in research when what is morally right or acceptable is not clear-cut. In this work, we give an overview of the discussion of ethical implications in current published work in computer security by reviewing all 1154 top-tier security papers published in 2024, finding inconsistent levels of ethics reporting with a stron…

Open problems in information geometry: a discussion at FDIG 2025
Tomonari Sei, Hiroshi Matsuzoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06989 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Open problems in information geometry: a discussion at FDIG 2025
Open problems in information geometry are collected and discussed in the conference ``Further Developments of Information Geometry (FDIG) 2025'' held at the University of Tokyo, Japan, from March 18 to 21, 2025.

Mamdani Meets Bloomberg, Once a Sworn Foe, for a 'Cordial' Discussion (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-bloomberg-mayor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p177#a250911p177

After seeing a workshop using a crappy pseudo/proprietary forensic web capture toolkit for law enforcement, I was disappointed by the lack of open source tooling to have a sane forensic collection for web capture. Following a discussion with @… he did an implementation to add web forensic acquisition in

This is so cool, remember having discussion about this back in the 1990s... nice to see this now.
From: @…
https://scicomm.xyz/@mustapipa/115155606071329641

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Maha Tufail Agro, Atharva Kulkarni, Karima Kadaoui, Zeerak Talat, Hanan Aldarmaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07741

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Motivated by a growing research interest into automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the growing body of work for languages in which code-switching (CS) often occurs, we present a systematic literature review of code-switching in end-to-end ASR models. We collect and manually annotate papers published in peer reviewed venues. We document the languages considered, datasets, metrics, model choices, and performance, and present a discussion of challenges in end-to-end ASR for code-switching. Our …

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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I haven't seen quite a few #StarWars scenes here! Really amazing... especially the Mon Mothma/Organa discussion... & that one Hoth scene. 😜
▶️ The Unseen Star Wars Footage That Would Change Everything
https://

Just part of discussion you'll hear on the #UCU picket line. 💪
Our university has ended up being more exposed than others to the funding issues in UK higher education. It's very unclear where their £140M savings target has come from. This is a major issue for trust and transparency, given the potential (un)employment consequences of seeking ~10% savings in 18 months.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c784923y6vpo
4/4. 🧵 ends.

Discussion Chain
Tomohiro Nobeyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23722 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23722…

Discussion Chain
To make scientific truth more reliable and qualified, I propose to focus on the chain of discussion in a scientific journal rather than on each original paper. The value, quality and reliability should be judged by the form of the whole discussion chain, not only by an original report. Funding and sponsorship should also give more priority to the extension of the discussion chain. Maintaining the discussion chain and evaluating each scientific truth by the whole chain is the next value of the s…

What happens to a man after he’s been resurrected from hell?
When I talked to Andry Hernšndez Romero earlier this week, he tried to answer this question.
Andry explained why he wanted to come to America.
How he was treated in our hands.
The disgusting and unconscionable abuse that he was subjected to an infamous Salvadoran prison.
His hopes for freedom and so much more.
The entire discussion was remarkable because he is remarkable.
Not just his …

Can We Ever Repair This Moral Rot
MAGA can learn grace from the folks their leader wrongfully imprisoned.

In a live discussion on X, Elon Musk tells advertisers that X plans to introduce advertising into Grok's answers (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3bc3a76a-8639-4dbe-8754-3053270e4605

Elon Musk to introduce ads to X’s AI chatbot
Billionaire owner outlines plans to improve advertising on social media platform in rare overture to marketers

Very NSFW Reddit screenshot of discussion on Grok and “Ani” referencing sexual violence and crimes
Via https://bsky.app/profile/abeba.bsky.social/post/3lvl7uenouc22

Weekend Reads
* Societal cost of DDoS
https://thegfce.org/news/estimating-the-societal-cost-of-ddos-attacks-a-dual-lens-model-for-national-impact-assessment/
* HTTP/1.1 desync attacks

Estimating The Societal Cost Of DDoS Attacks: A Dual-Lens Model For National Impact Assessment - The GFCE
A new discussion paper, "Estimating the Societal Cost of DDoS Attacks: A Dual-Lens Model for National Impact Assessment," authored by Carlos Alvarez, Director

#warthunder

BAe Harrier II (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion
The source attempting to be posted is NOT cleared for public use and is very clearly marked “DISTRUBITION STATEMENT C” its front cover. No source material that is restricted, export restricted or classified will ever be tolerated, handled or used in any way on any of our platforms. This is a direct breach of our rules: Source Material: Restrictions on Classified and Export Restricted information (“Military Restrictions”)

Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis
Antoine Larbanois, Victor Dachet, Antoine Dubois, Rapha\"el Fonteneau, Damien Ernst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07681

Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis
Remote renewable energy hubs (RREHs) for synthetic fuel production are engineering systems harvesting renewable energy where it is particularly abundant. They produce transportable synthetic fuels for export to distant load centers. This article aims to evaluate the production costs of different energy carriers, and includes a discussion on advantages and disadvantages in terms of technical performance. To do so, we extend the study of Berger et al., (2021) which focuses on methane (CH4) as ene…

Gauge potentials on the M5 brane in twisted equivariant cohomotopy
Pinak Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07049 https://arxiv.org/…

Gauge potentials on the M5 brane in twisted equivariant cohomotopy
In this article, we work out some variations on the discussion of the C-field flux densities in the Sati-Schreiber program. We start by explaining the need for global completion of the field content: the fluxes, the gauge potentials and the gauge transformations on the worldvolume of a single M5 brane in eleven-dimensional supergravity, and how this is encoded by the choice of flux quantization law. \smallskip Assuming Hypothesis H that the 4-flux in M-Theory is flux quantized in a non-abelia…

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Traditional Art Forms: A Disruption or Enhancement
Viswa Chaitanya Marella, Sai Teja Erukude, Suhasnadh Reddy Veluru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07029

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Traditional Art Forms: A Disruption or Enhancement
The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the domains of traditional art (visual arts, performing arts, and crafts) has sparked a complicated discussion about whether this might be an agent of disruption or an enhancement of our traditional art forms. This paper looks at the duality of AI, exploring the ways that recent technologies like Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models, and text-to-image generators are changing the fields of painting, sculpture, calligraphy, dan…

Raiders' Training Camp Report No. 12 for the Latest from Inside Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/training-cam-las-vegas-pete-carroll-jamal-adams-geno-smith-aidan-oconnell-tom-brady

Event Rates at a 10 TeV Muon Collider and Implications for Detector Design: Trigger, Data Acquisition, and Luminosity
Tova Holmes, Lawrence Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06239 …

Event Rates at a 10 TeV Muon Collider and Implications for Detector Design: Trigger, Data Acquisition, and Luminosity
This short document presents a discussion of rates of a wide range of processes at a muon collider. The goal is to provide a first look at what will fill the detector, how often processes of interest are occurring, and the implications for detector readout, a potential trigger system, and luminosity measurements.

Following a discussion on reddit of all places, here's a poll. Please spread far and wide because [garbled audio, static, unintelligible noises]
The question is: do you normally listen to and enjoy audiobooks?
Also, this is what I mean by "inner monologue" (sorry it's not WP but that page terrifies me)

How Inner Monologues Work, and Who Has Them
Inner monologues can represent a rich experience for some, as long as they don’t get out of hand.

B02 - Shadow
BEK: What's in it for you?
BLAKE: You can help me with one of my crew. His name's Vila and he's suffering from a bad attack of alcoholic remorse. [Into bracelet] All right, Cally. [To them] He wants to make a necklace of his teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/321

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24)
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REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
vi…

Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
Fabio Herrera-Rocha, David Medina-Ortiz, Fabian Mauz, Juergen Pleiss, Mehdi D. Davari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07547

Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
Data-driven modeling based on Machine Learning (ML) is becoming a central component of protein engineering workflows. This perspective presents the elements necessary to develop effective, reliable, and reproducible ML models, and a set of guidelines for ML developments for protein engineering. This includes a critical discussion of software engineering good practices for development and evaluation of ML-based protein engineering projects, emphasizing supervised learning. These guidelines cover…

Rejoinder to the discussion of "Mode-based estimation of the center of symmetry"
Jos\'e E. Chac\'on, Javier Fern\'andez Serrano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18909

Rejoinder to the discussion of "Mode-based estimation of the center of symmetry"
Rejoinder to the discussion by Hino (2025) and Pardo-Fernández (2025) of Chacón and Fernández Serrano (2025), a special paper (with discussion) published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

As expected, the #kde discussion forum is tone - policing my contribution. First there are violent changes introducing a dozen bugs. And then, they expect that you unpack the violin to report nicely the dozen bugs instead of just asking them to revert that shit they produced.
#kde currently turns into perma-alpha …

@… https://jazzrealities.substack.com

Jazz Realities | Scott | Substack
Jazz Realities is a radio show on NQRA and this is the newsletter arm where discussion may include: Cecil Taylor’s sweaters, moronic jambands, jazz tuba players, cheap reggae 45s, and new releases from small & vigorous labels in a race against the algo. Click to read Jazz Realities, by Scott, a Substack publication. Launched 8 hours ago.

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Not the @… going 'oh well, genAI is here, better engage with it' as well..
https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/08/genai-curriculum-discussions/
I'm so very tired and disappointed, especially after the discussion went full 'basic programming is super important and genAI won't help learning these basics and important concepts' and then we still end up with this 'but anywayz' approach. Why??

Application Space and the Rate-Distortion-Complexity Analysis of Neural Video CODECs
Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Diogo C. Garcia, Yi-Hsin Chen, Ruhan Concei\c{c}\~ao, Wen-Hsiao Peng, Luciano V. Agostini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05929

Application Space and the Rate-Distortion-Complexity Analysis of Neural Video CODECs
We study the decision-making process for choosing video compression systems through a rate-distortion-complexity (RDC) analysis. We discuss the 2D Bjontegaard delta (BD) metric and formulate generalizations in an attempt to extend its notions to the 3D RDC volume. We follow that discussion with another one on the computation of metrics in the RDC volume, and on how to define and measure the cost of a coder-decoder (codec) pair, where the codec is characterized by a cloud of points in the RDC sp…

Microsoft did this? I’m shocked. I thought they were too busy helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine. How do they even find the time? https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/115114482372317211

david celis (@davidcelis@xoxo.zone)
Attached: 1 image GitHub straight up blocked a woman from the community org for writing this in the discussion about Grok in Copilot. The entire situation is growing exponentially more distasteful the longer they choose to censor rather than respond. This is just so, so shameful.

Quartic BV structures in supercategories and modified necklace Lie bialgebras
Nikolai Perry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.079…

Quartic BV structures in supercategories and modified necklace Lie bialgebras
We introduce a modified version of the necklace Lie bialgebra associated to a quiver, in which the bracket and cobracket insert (rather than remove) pairs of arrows in involution. This structure is then related to canonical quartic Poisson/Batalin-Vilkovisky structures on suitable representation varieties of the quiver. Constructions on the representation side take place in symmetric monoidal $Π$-categories, which prompts a discussion of graded differential operators on commutative monoids in …

In the FreshRSS discussion section on GH someone suggested also including OPML files that can be easily imported by others.
I didn't even know FreshRSS has a custom OPML extension to include those configs, but that's amazing!
Added some already now! https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/freshrss-fulltext-settings

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24)
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CFP: Failure: Understanding Art as Process, 1150-1750 (Florence, 15-17 Oct 20) Call for…
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Der Thread von @… über die Zerstörung des US-Amerikanischen Rechtsstaats.
Vorbereitet wurde das mit einer gezielten Besetzung des US-Verfassungsgerichts mit Trumps Handlangern in seiner ersten Amtszeit.
Ein Spiel das CDU und CSU derzeit auch spielen: sie versuchen die Besetzung des deutschen Verfassungsgerichts mit Richter*innen, die nicht auf Partei- son…

toad.social
Mastodon server operated by David Troy, a tech pioneer and investigative journalist addressing threats to democracy. Thoughtful participation and discussion welcome.

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
[1/1]:
- Open problems in information geometry: a discussion at FDIG 2025
Tomonari Sei, Hiroshi Matsuzoe

Criterion for the Existence of the $G(3900)$ Resonance
Yin Huang, Xurong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06353 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06353

Criterion for the Existence of the $G(3900)$ Resonance
About 18 years ago, the BABAR and the Belle Collaborations reported evidence for a new $c\bar{c}$ structure near $3900~\mathrm{MeV}$ in $e^{+}e^{-} \to D\bar{D}$, triggering debate over whether it represents a genuine hadronic state or arises from interference effects and the opening of the $D^{*}\bar{D}$ threshold. The issue remained unsettled until 2024, when BESIII, with an enlarged $e^{+}e^{-} \to D\bar{D}$ sample, confirmed the presence of the $G(3900)$ structure, reviving discussion of it…

Are you interested in Worker Cooperative game dev studios?
What about building your own someday with fellow collaborators?
Then pop along to this online panel discussion from game devs in cooperatives doing just that! Details below 👇
https://social.coop/@denmanrooke/114955247…

Egyptian fractions for few primes
Agustina Czenky, Emily McGovern, Julia Plavnik, Eric Rowell, Abigail Watkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03727 https://

Egyptian fractions for few primes
We study solutions to the Egyptian fractions equation with the prime factors of the denominators constrained to lie in a fixed set of primes. We evaluate the effectiveness of the greedy algorithm in establishing bounds on such solutions. Additionally, we present improved algorithms for generating low-rank solutions and solutions restricted to specific prime sets. Computational results obtained using these algorithms are provided, alongside a discussion on their performance.

I am thinking about the discussion Trump will have with Qatar, "yes, sorry but you needed to be bombed and ofcourse we really want to keep the large US military base in your country..." 😂 , if Qatar just lets this go they will lose all credibility.
#qatar #usa

So there's a decades-old mechanism (and actual standard) how programs lock serial ports on unix-like systems in /var/lock. it's used in practice even in 2025 and #systemd >= 258 simply breaks it with "we don't care". I am not a systemd opponent, but that kind of behaviour [without a prior community-wide discussion or providing patches for known-affected projects and a grace…

Very NSFW Reddit screenshot of discussion on Grok and “Ani” referencing sexual violence and crimes
Here’s what Apple allows into the App Store as “Productivity” app

My instance is on v4.4.0. Quote post something if your instance allows it, so I could bask in its glory 😀
Also, is the reply fetch supposed to be configurable in the admin section of v4.4.0? I am still using #Substitoot for a quick look before going to the original post to follow the discussion.

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

ok, so, you know how the standards (C/POSIX) allow malloc(0) to return NULL?
i went to refresh my memory after a discussion of a security issue today and as best as i can tell, no commonly used OS has ever had malloc(0) return NULL, including historical ones¹. windows, glibc, musl, BSDs, all return a non-NULL pointer to some object
¹…

Some modernization planning for Duende IdentityServer. If you are in the #dotnet space, please leave your thoughts. https://github.com/orgs/DuendeSoftware/discussions/285

RFC: Modernizing CancellationToken Usage in Async APIs · DuendeSoftware · Discussion #285
Hey everyone, We're considering a significant change to how IdentityServer handles asynchronous operations, and we need your feedback before moving forward. TL;DR: We want to add CancellationToken ...

Proceedings 14th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education
Rose Bohrer (AIST, Tokyo, JP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02305 https://

Proceedings 14th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education
The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop.

No I don't want an email with a summary of the discussion, I want my headphones to work right after I I switch to my computer

VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
Muhammad Javed, Sedigh Khademi, Joanne Hickman, Jim Buttery, Hazel Clothier, Gerardo Luis Dimaguila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04656

VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
The recent vaccine-related infodemic has amplified public concerns, highlighting the need for proactive misinformation management. We describe how we enhanced the reporting surveillance system of Victoria's vaccine safety service, SAEFVIC, through the incorporation of new information sources for public sentiment analysis, topics of discussion, and hesitancies about vaccinations online. Using VaxPulse, a multi-step framework, we integrate adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) with sentime…

Take notes, everyone, this is the way:
❝I am not going to lead with a discussion of what Cook may or may not have done. That would be playing Trump’s game.❞
Don’t lead with refuting the BS. Lead with attacking the rotten motives behind the BS.

Aircraft routing: periodicity and complexity
Fr\'ed\'eric Meunier, Axel Parmentier, Nour ElHouda Tellache
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05532 https://…

Aircraft routing: periodicity and complexity
The aircraft routing problem is one of the most studied problems of operations research applied to aircraft management. It involves assigning flights to aircraft while ensuring regular visits to maintenance bases. This paper examines two aspects of the problem. First, we explore the relationship between periodic instances, where flights are the same every day, and periodic solutions. The literature has implicitly assumed-without discussion-that periodic instances necessitate periodic solution…

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

Somebody complained the CSV loader in ngscopeclient was too slow https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal/issues/989
In the original discussion (linked from this ticket) they wanted to multithread it. Which is still potentially on the table for the future, but I d…

CSV filter: more efficient loading of large files · Issue #989 · ngscopeclient/scopehal
The current parsing algorithm is extremely inefficient. See ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps#874 for a problematic dataset

A consultation on the future of #Wikinews has been kicked off, with a thorough review. Discussion is starting. Thanks to Victoria Doronina for all her work with this!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Publ…

Public consultation about Wikinews - Meta

Interesting discussion thread on open science
https://neuromatch.social/@adredish/114942098283461507

For those with a Twitter (X) account, there is a fun little discussion thread between me, myself and #AI (Grok, ChatGPT) about whether Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will work for congenitally blind people to see. https://

Grok (@grok) on X
@NotOpCue @elonmusk @neuralink Neuralink's brain-computer interface aims to help disabled individuals by connecting the brain to computers. It has enabled quadriplegics, like Noland Arbaugh, to control devices such as a computer mouse or play chess using thoughts alone, as shown in 2024 trials. The Blindsight

Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true."

Interesting discussion of "protein culture", the latest health trend that's now deeply embedded in most food products.
I myself found I was going a bit overboard with protein til a few months ago. Was getting about 180 grams per day, which is way more than needed. Now I'm down to about 100g per day.
I find few things more American and capitalist than the health and longevity business. I worked with a guy who's big into longevity and the way he talks about …

Rager:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/4460
Part of my frustration with this 1.2.5 discussion (no gaps means auto-pass a lack of AD) was the earlier assertion that videos always have gaps (ha ha, no:

1.2.3 / 1.2.5 Audio description - No pause · Issue #4460 · w3c/wcag
If a video has no pause in dialogue to provide audio descriptions, is the video considered to meet SC 1.2.3 / 1.2.5 Audio description? Even if the content author want to provide audio descriptions ...

Still contributing the occasional PR via github, but adding a note encouraging people to leave
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11082#issuecomment-3219409552

Worth a read from historian Ed Dunsworth.
"On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up" (June 2025)
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06/11/on-generative-ai-in-the-classroom-give-up-give-in-or-stand…

On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …

Democrat Self-Destructs During Discussion on Anti-ICE Violence, Proves Larger Point in the Process (Sister Toldjah/RedState)
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/08/08/leftist-commentator-proves-the-point-in-comments-on-violence-against-ice-n2192594
http://www.memeorandum.com/250808/p67#a250808p67

Many professed concerns from the right about Israel or antisemitism are expressions of American identity politics and nativism
-- more than they are statements of genuine concern for the safety and well-being of minorities.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/if-not-now-when/

If Not Now, When? Contextualizing the White Supremacist Threat to Muslims and Jews
Much ink has been spilled in recent months debating comments by U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) regarding Israel. People have argued, sometimes in good faith, that they used antisemitic tropes, unintentionally or not. However, this discussion has lacked necessary cultural and social background to make

Validity Verification of the New TOEFL Writing Task Based on Classical Test Theory
Yinyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Validity Verification of the New TOEFL Writing Task Based on Classical Test Theory
The TOEFL iBT has introduced the Academic Discussion Task (ADT) to assess test-takers' ability to engage in academic discourse, reflecting the growing emphasis on interactive communication skills in higher education. However, research on the ADT's validity and fairness particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse groups, such as Chinese students, remains limited. This study addresses this gap by employing Classical Test Theory (CTT) to evaluate the psychometric properties of the ADT a…

SimuPanel: A Novel Immersive Multi-Agent System to Simulate Interactive Expert Panel Discussion
Xiangyang He, Jiale Li, Jiahao Chen, Yang Yang, Mingming Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16010

SimuPanel: A Novel Immersive Multi-Agent System to Simulate Interactive Expert Panel Discussion
Panel discussion allows the audience to learn different perspectives through interactive discussions among experts moderated by a host and a Q&A session with the audience. Despite its benefits, panel discussion in the real world is inaccessible to many who do not have the privilege to participate due to geographical, financial, and time constraints. We present SimuPanel, which simulates panel discussions among academic experts through LLM-based multi-agent interaction. It enables users to defin…

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
VILA: Oh, yes, Tarrant says he was a space captain, but then he says a lot of things, and you don't have to believe it all, do you?
AVON: I'd be more inclined to believe that he was a captain than that you could have been.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/152

It’s not fair to compare a state-of-the-art-AI-assisted proprietary tool from a trillion-dollar corporation with a hand-coded free and open tool from a small not-for-profit cooperative.
(The latter works.)
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/17…

The Github website is extremely slow on Safari · community · Discussion #170758
Select Topic Area Bug Body Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable. Displaying any pull request with more than...

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
https://ift.tt/lHdwe5h
University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

Error Accumulation using Linearized Models for Aggregating Flexibility in Distribution Systems
Yanlin Jiang, Xinliang Dai, Frederik Zahn, Yi Guo, Veit Hagenmeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04382

Error Accumulation using Linearized Models for Aggregating Flexibility in Distribution Systems
This paper investigates flexibility aggregation approaches based on linear models. We begin by examining the theoretical foundations of linear AC power flow, two variants of so-called DC power flow, and the LinDistFlow model, along with their underlying assumptions. The discussion covers key system details, including network topology, voltage constraints, and line losses. Simulations are conducted on the KIT Campus Nord network with real demand and solar data. Results show that, in the absence …

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

From Turing to Tomorrow: The UK's Approach to AI Regulation
Oliver Ritchie, Markus Anderljung, Tom Rachman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03050 https://

From Turing to Tomorrow: The UK's Approach to AI Regulation
The UK has pursued a distinctive path in AI regulation: less cautious than the EU but more willing to address risks than the US, and has emerged as a global leader in coordinating AI safety efforts. Impressive developments from companies like London-based DeepMind began to spark concerns in the UK about catastrophic risks from around 2012, although regulatory discussion at the time focussed on bias and discrimination. By 2022, these discussions had evolved into a "pro-innovation" strategy, in w…

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

From Misunderstandings to Learning Opportunities: Leveraging Generative AI in Discussion Forums to Support Student Learning
Stanislav Pozdniakov, Jonathan Brazil, Oleksandra Poquet, Stephan Krusche, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Shazia Sadiq, Hassan Khosravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11150

From Misunderstandings to Learning Opportunities: Leveraging Generative AI in Discussion Forums to Support Student Learning
In the contemporary educational landscape, particularly in large classroom settings, discussion forums have become a crucial tool for promoting interaction and addressing student queries. These forums foster a collaborative learning environment where students engage with both the teaching team and their peers. However, the sheer volume of content generated in these forums poses two significant interconnected challenges: How can we effectively identify common misunderstandings that arise in stud…

Conservative Pundit Cornered On CNN For Touting Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Interview (Marco Margaritoff/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ben-ferguson-asha-rangappa-cnn-discussion-ghislaine-maxwell-interview_n_68a9eee5e4b0dafc7be160e3
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p54#a250823p54

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
https://ift.tt/0XPK6tS
University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24)
https://ift.tt/6GawvTS
CFP: The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, Association of…
vi…

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcemen…