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🥨 Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/germany-anti-diversity-backlash-trump-afd

Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …

This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’
The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/analysis-sustainable-diets-missing-from-nearly-99-of-climate-media-coverage-2025-11-24/

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage
Center for Biological Diversity: Only 3% of 10,000+ Articles Mentioned Meat, Animal Agriculture

I've long felt that the whole concept of "normality" is simply a cudgel used to browbeat people into conformity or make us feel like shit if we don't.
Reject the weaponization of normality for ostracization. Embrace diversity in all its forms.

Why the Raiders are all in on building a new legacy with Las Vegas HBCU Classic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742095/2025/10/24/why-the-raiders-are-all-in-on-building-a-new-legacy-with-las-vegas-hbcu-classic/

'No better time than now': Justin Fargas embraces coaching opportunity with the Silver and Black https://www.raiders.com/news/justin-fargas-embraces-coaching-opportunity-with-the-silver-and-black

UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Underrepresented Stories Grow on Streaming
The Hollywood Diversity Report for 2024 streaming TV from UCLA reported fewer leading roles for women and women of color than in 2023.

Late-surviving New Mexican #dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3282 ->
Dinosaurs were thriving until asteroid struck, research suggests: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/23/dinosaurs-asteroid-struck-research - dating of rock formation in New Mexico casts doubt on theory that species was already in decline.

🕸️ Spiders inspire biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spiders-biologists-artificial-webs-capture.html

Spiders inspire biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

🚫 If you use #Steam, I have a #fascist you can block! 🚫
His bio says:
"There are only two genders
The only "strength" in diversity, is diversity of thought!
There is no such place as "palestine""
Link:

Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-s…

Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

Think Landing a Job Is Hard? Try Having 'DEI' on Your Resume (Saijel Kishan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-20/dei-jobs-vanish-as-diversity-workers-struggle-to-land-roles
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p104#a251020p104

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Tintinnids ("tinkling bells") are ciliates found in fresh and saltwater known for their characteristic vase-shaped shell called a lorica. These are formed of tough proteins, incorporating minerals from the water and vary considerably by species. The shell offers protection and optimizes feeding on phytoplankton, bacteria and flagellates. These small pro…

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad

Hatte etwas Angst, dass Zootopia 2 dem Anti-Diversity-Wahn zum Opfer fallen könnte; aber ganz im Gegenteil: der Film bleibt sich treu ...

Why the Raiders are all in on building a new legacy with Las Vegas HBCU Classic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742095/2025/10/24/why-the-raiders-are-all-in-on-building-a-new-legacy-with-las-vegas-hbcu-classic/

"Snow leopard populations threatened by climate change and low genetic diversity"
#SnowLeopard #Leopard #Animals #Climate

Snow leopard habitats could be at risk from climate change
Because there aren’t many snow leopards left, they are classified as “vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List.

Parameterized Algorithms for Diversity of Networks with Ecological Dependencies
Mark Jones, Jannik Schestag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09512 https://arxiv.…

Parameterized Algorithms for Diversity of Networks with Ecological Dependencies
For a phylogenetic tree, the phylogenetic diversity of a set A of taxa is the total weight of edges on paths to A. Finding small sets of maximal diversity is crucial for conservation planning, as it indicates where limited resources can be invested most efficiently. In recent years, efficient algorithms have been developed to find sets of taxa that maximize phylogenetic diversity either in a phylogenetic network or in a phylogenetic tree subject to ecological constraints, such as a food web. Ho…

The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale
from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices,
according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian.
The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from
the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices
– if they “openly en…

OSCAR: Orthogonal Stochastic Control for Alignment-Respecting Diversity in Flow Matching
Jingxuan Wu, Zhenglin Wan, Xingrui Yu, Yuzhe Yang, Bo An, Ivor Tsang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09060

OSCAR: Orthogonal Stochastic Control for Alignment-Respecting Diversity in Flow Matching
Flow-based text-to-image models follow deterministic trajectories, forcing users to repeatedly sample to discover diverse modes, which is a costly and inefficient process. We present a training-free, inference-time control mechanism that makes the flow itself diversity-aware. Our method simultaneously encourages lateral spread among trajectories via a feature-space objective and reintroduces uncertainty through a time-scheduled stochastic perturbation. Crucially, this perturbation is projected …

Andreessen said that mandatory NASDAQ rules that imposed diversity criteria on corporate boards were "crazy", recounting that on one occasion he was tempted to describe himself as "bisexual" to help Meta meet those criteria, as he felt for Peter Thiel, who was horrified when Meta lawyers suggested that he classified himself as "diverse".

Dwarf diversity in $\Lambda$CDM with baryons
Akaxia Cruz, Alyson Brooks, Mariangela Lisanti, Annika H. G. Peter, Robel Geda, Thomas Quinn, Michael Tremmel, Ferah Munshi, Ben Keller, James Wadsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11800

Dwarf diversity in $Λ$CDM with baryons
Observed rotation curves of dwarf galaxies exhibit significant diversity at fixed halo mass, challenging galaxy formation within the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model. Previous cosmological galaxy formation simulations with baryonic physics fail to reproduce the full diversity of rotation curves, suggesting either that there is a flaw in baryonic feedback models, or that an alternative to CDM must be invoked. In this work, we use the Marvelous Massive Dwarf zoom-in simulations, a suite of high-resol…

Fruit-eating animals are less diverse in body size, and thereby less well matched to the diversity of fruits they eat and seeds they disperse, in habitats with more human disruption
#science

All political violence is bad; violence is never a good answer.
From report AG and potus want to hide: "…the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism."
https://www.scribd.com/document/9186184…

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism | PDF | Extremism | Crimes
NIJ-funded research has enhanced understanding of domestic terrorism, particularly the rise of far-right extremist violence in the U.S., which has outpaced other forms of terrorism. The studies reveal that radicalization processes vary by group and crime type, and highlight the importance of community-based prevention strategies. Key findings include the diversity of extremist beliefs and behaviors, the role of military experience in radicalization, and the need for targeted interventions to pr…

Warning that Trump scrapping diversity orders could hurt global economic growth | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-diversity-economic-growth-women-mariella-frostrup-b2839581.html

Study: among the top 100 Spotify podcasts in the US in 2024, 64% were hosted by men, 77% of hosts were white, and 62.6% of 4K episodes had no woman guests (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/usc-study-podcast-hosts-diversity-men-women-race/

Podcasting's Diversity Problem: 64% of Hosts Are Male, 77% Are White, USC Study Finds
The hosts of the top 100 podcasts of 2024 were overwhelmingly white and male, a new comprehensive study from USC reveals.

TL;DR: Dominant #H3N2 #influenza strain this year is new & the star of the season, with that part of the *trivalent* vax not a great match. HOWEVER, the vax is still doing its job of keeping most people out of the hospital.
Each year's vax helps build more diversity in your flu-attacking antib…

This flu season could be a bad one thanks to new variant
Early clues suggest the U.S. may be facing yet another bad flu season this year. The latest flu virus has mutated in ways that present particular challenges for our immune systems.

#idw Keeping pace with #ClimateChange: Genetic exchange enables rapid adaptation in songbirds
Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels
Exchange of genetic diversity between species accelerates evolutionary adaptation Climate change is rapidly altering our environment – and posing m…

Keeping pace with climate change: Genetic exchange enables rapid adaptation in songbirds

A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation (Ethan Sandweiss/WFYI Public Media)
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/iu-lecturer-removed-from-class-during-intellectual-diversity-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p94#a251111p94

PAH Spectral Diversity in NGC 7027 and the Evolution of Aromatic Carriers
Charlotte Smith-Perez, Aidan Hembruff, Els Peeters, Alexander G. G. M. Tielens, Alessandra Ricca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09972

PAH Spectral Diversity in NGC 7027 and the Evolution of Aromatic Carriers
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) constitute a significant fraction of the Universe's carbon budget, playing a key role in the cosmic carbon cycle and dominating the mid-infrared spectra of astrophysical environments in which they reside. Although PAHs are known to form in the circumstellar envelopes of post-AGB stars, their formation and evolution are still not well-understood. We aim to understand how pristine complex hydrocarbons and PAHs in circumstellar environments transition to the…

"Geoff Horsman, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University... testified that his application for an NSERC grant renewal was turned down because 'I was unable to profess sufficiently enthusiastic support for the official state ideology of EDI.'"
Or maybe, I dunno, dude's grant application just wasn't good enough?

Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs
Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong, Anthony Sicilia, Michael R. Tomz, Christopher D. Manning, Weiyan Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01171

Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
Post-training alignment often reduces LLM diversity, leading to a phenomenon known as mode collapse. Unlike prior work that attributes this effect to algorithmic limitations, we identify a fundamental, pervasive data-level driver: typicality bias in preference data, whereby annotators systematically favor familiar text as a result of well-established findings in cognitive psychology. We formalize this bias theoretically, verify it on preference datasets empirically, and show that it plays a cen…

"Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map"
#US #USA #America #California

Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map
Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But it’s home to a rich diversity of species found nowhere else on Earth that are uniquely adapted to serpentine soil, composed of […]

How public datasets constrain the development of diversity-aware news recommender systems, and what law could do about it
Max van Drunen, Sanne Vrijenhoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05952

How public datasets constrain the development of diversity-aware news recommender systems, and what law could do about it
News recommender systems increasingly determine what news individuals see online. Over the past decade, researchers have extensively critiqued recommender systems that prioritise news based on user engagement. To offer an alternative, researchers have analysed how recommender systems could support the media's ability to fulfil its role in democratic society by recommending news based on editorial values, particularly diversity. However, there continues to be a large gap between normative theory…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/5]:
- The Diffusion Duality
Sahoo, Deschenaux, Gokaslan, Wang, Chiu, Kuleshov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10892 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675526577078472
- Multimodal Representation Learning and Fusion
Jin, Ge, Xie, Luo, Song, Bi, Liang, Guan, Yeong, Song, Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20494 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749113025183688
- The kernel of graph indices for vector search
Mariano Tepper, Ted Willke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20584 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749118923266356
- OptScale: Probabilistic Optimality for Inference-time Scaling
Youkang Wang, Jian Wang, Rubing Chen, Xiao-Yong Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114771735361664528
- Boosting Revisited: Benchmarking and Advancing LP-Based Ensemble Methods
Fabian Akkerman, Julien Ferry, Christian Artigues, Emmanuel Hebrard, Thibaut Vidal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114913322736512937
- MolMark: Safeguarding Molecular Structures through Learnable Atom-Level Watermarking
Runwen Hu, Peilin Chen, Keyan Ding, Shiqi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17702 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115095014405732247
- Dual-Distilled Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Adaptive Margins for Trainable Global Protot...
Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Wensheng Zhang, Anuj Sharma, Juan Pablo Mu\~noz, Ali Jannesari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19009 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100269482762688
- STDiff: A State Transition Diffusion Framework for Time Series Imputation in Industrial Systems
Gary Simethy, Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo, Petar Durdevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19011 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100270137397046
- EEGDM: Learning EEG Representation with Latent Diffusion Model
Shaocong Wang, Tong Liu, Yihan Li, Ming Li, Kairui Wen, Pei Yang, Wenqi Ji, Minjing Yu, Yong-Jin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20705 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115111565155687451
- Data-Free Continual Learning of Server Models in Model-Heterogeneous Cloud-Device Collaboration
Xiao Zhang, Zengzhe Chen, Yuan Yuan, Yifei Zou, Fuzhen Zhuang, Wenyu Jiao, Yuke Wang, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25977 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298721327100391
- Fine-Tuning Masked Diffusion for Provable Self-Correction
Jaeyeon Kim, Seunggeun Kim, Taekyun Lee, David Z. Pan, Hyeji Kim, Sham Kakade, Sitan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115309690976554356
- A Generic Machine Learning Framework for Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
Alex Hiles, Bashar I. Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09775 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115372387779061015
- ASecond-Order SpikingSSM for Wearables
Kartikay Agrawal, Abhijeet Vikram, Vedant Sharma, Vaishnavi Nagabhushana, Ayon Borthakur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14386 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115389079527543821
- Utility-Diversity Aware Online Batch Selection for LLM Supervised Fine-tuning
Heming Zou, Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Xiangyang Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16882 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115412243355962887
- Seeing Structural Failure Before it Happens: An Image-Based Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN...
Omer Jauhar Khan, Sudais Khan, Hafeez Anwar, Shahzeb Khan, Shams Ul Arifeen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451891042176876
- Training Deep Physics-Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Spyros Rigas, Fotios Anagnostopoulos, Michalis Papachristou, Georgios Alexandridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23501 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451942159737549
- Semi-Supervised Preference Optimization with Limited Feedback
Seonggyun Lee, Sungjun Lim, Seojin Park, Soeun Cheon, Kyungwoo Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115490555013124989
- Towards Causal Market Simulators
Dennis Thumm, Luis Ontaneda Mijares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04469 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115507943827841017
- Incremental Generation is Necessary and Sufficient for Universality in Flow-Based Modelling
Hossein Rouhvarzi, Anastasis Kratsios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09902 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115547587245365920
- Optimizing Mixture of Block Attention
Guangxuan Xiao, Junxian Guo, Kasra Mazaheri, Song Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11571 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115564541392410174
- Assessing Automated Fact-Checking for Medical LLM Responses with Knowledge Graphs
Shasha Zhou, Mingyu Huang, Jack Cole, Charles Britton, Ming Yin, Jan Wolber, Ke Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12817 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115570877730326947
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💖 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-offshore-drilling-plan-brings-oil-spill-risks-to-us-coasts-2025-11-20/
…

Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts
Center for Biological Diversity: Industry Giveaway of Public Waters Proposed During Climate Talks

AdaRD-key: Adaptive Relevance-Diversity Keyframe Sampling for Long-form Video understanding
Xian Zhang, Zexi Wu, Zinuo Li, Hongming Xu, Luqi Gong, Farid Boussaid, Naoufel Werghi, Mohammed Bennamoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02778

AdaRD-key: Adaptive Relevance-Diversity Keyframe Sampling for Long-form Video understanding
Understanding long-form videos remains a significant challenge for vision--language models (VLMs) due to their extensive temporal length and high information density. Most current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) rely on uniform sampling, which often overlooks critical moments, leading to incorrect responses to queries. In parallel, many keyframe selection approaches impose rigid temporal spacing: once a frame is chosen, an exclusion window suppresses adjacent timestamps to reduce redun…

Computing Phylogenetic Diversity
Jannik Schestag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01849 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01849

Computing Phylogenetic Diversity
Phylogenetic Diversity(PD)is a well-regarded measure of the overall biodiversity of a set of present-day species(taxa)that indicates its ecological significance.In the Maximize Phylogenetic Diversity(Max-PD)problem one is asked to find a small set of taxa in a phylogenetic tree for which this measure is maximized.Max-PD is particularly relevant in conservation planning,where limited resources necessitate prioritizing certain taxa to minimize biodiversity loss.Although Max-PD can be solved in po…

Designing Wine Tasting Experiences for All: The role of Human Diversity and Personal food memory
Xinyang Shan, Yuanyuan Xu, Yuqing Wang, Tian Xia, Yinshan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00607

Designing Wine Tasting Experiences for All: The role of Human Diversity and Personal food memory
This study investigates the design of inclusive wine-tasting experiences by examining the roles of human diversity and personal food memory. Through field studies conducted in various wine regions, we explored how Chinese visitors engage with wine-tasting activities during winery tours, highlighting the cross-cultural challenges they face. Our findings underscore the importance of experiencers' abilities, necessities, and aspirations (ANAs), the authenticity of wine tasting within the context o…

@… That’s why diversity is important.
To some of us, that’s *the* fun part.

This is mesmerizing.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l6arnocvhn2zrll2gn6xlxn2/post/3m33bzfkh722u

Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net)
Courtney Mattison, Gyre I, stoneware and porcelain, 2023. "references the fragility, diversity, and resilience of marine ecosystems" #sciart

"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025

Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
You've likely watched a police procedural where the lab states the drowning was suspicious because of algae. The shells of diatoms have long been used in forensic #limnology because they are made of glass, so preserve very well.

What influenced the lack of diversity in CSR after the company's losses: evidence from topic modeling
Ruiying Liu, Yuchi Li, Zhanli Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23424 https…

What influenced the lack of diversity in CSR after the company's losses: evidence from topic modeling
The diversity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure is a crucial dimension of corporate transparency, reflecting the breadth and resilience of a firm's social responsibility. Using CSR reports of Chinese A-share firms from 2006 to 2023, this paper applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to extract topics and quantifies disclosure diversity using the Gini-Simpson index and Shannon entropy. Regression results show that corporate losses significantly compress CSR topic diversity, c…

Optimizing for Persuasion Improves LLM Generalization: Evidence from Quality-Diversity Evolution of Debate Strategies
Aksel Joonas Reedi, Corentin L\'eger, Julien Pourcel, Loris Gaven, Perrine Charriau, Guillaume Pourcel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05909

Optimizing for Persuasion Improves LLM Generalization: Evidence from Quality-Diversity Evolution of Debate Strategies
Large Language Models (LLMs) optimized to output truthful answers often overfit, producing brittle reasoning that fails to generalize. While persuasion-based optimization has shown promise in debate settings, it has not been systematically compared against mainstream truth-based approaches. We introduce DebateQD, a minimal Quality-Diversity (QD) evolutionary algorithm that evolves diverse debate strategies across different categories (rationality, authority, emotional appeal, etc.) through tour…

You can't make this stuff up https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html

This is insane. Does Little Marco not have enough to do?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html

Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
https://ift.tt/3HBlaQ0
The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Weighted Food Webs Make Computing Phylogenetic Diversity So Much Harder
Jannik Schestag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05911…

Weighted Food Webs Make Computing Phylogenetic Diversity So Much Harder
Phylogenetic trees represent certain species and their likely ancestors. In such a tree, present-day species are leaves and an edge from u to v indicates that u is an ancestor of v. Weights on these edges indicate the phylogenetic distance. The phylogenetic diversity (PD) of a set of species A is the total weight of edges that are on any path between the root of the phylogenetic tree and a species in A. Selecting a small set of species that maximizes phylogenetic diversity for a given phylogene…

This is my flag.
It means unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength.
There is nothing more important to fight for our values!
If you don’t like it, pack your bags and leave!
Long live Europe!

So, Micro Rubio marco-managing everything, declaring that sans-serif is woke but Times New Roman is politically correct.
A silly story, but the read should be that Rubio is entirely sidelined, if he has to pull stunts like this to keep busy, to keep in the public eye.
https://www.

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

Comparing Cross-Platform Performance via Node-to-Node Scaling Studies
Kenneth Weiss, Thomas M. Stitt, Daryl Hawkins, Olga Pearce, Stephanie Brink, Robert N. Rieben
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12166

Comparing Cross-Platform Performance via Node-to-Node Scaling Studies
Due to the increasing diversity of high-performance computing architectures, researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in comparing a code's performance and scalability across different platforms. However, there is a lack of available guidance on how to actually set up and analyze such cross-platform studies. In this paper, we contend that the natural base unit of computing for such studies is a single compute node on each platform and offer guidance in setting up, running, and …

A Comprehensive Survey on Smart Home IoT Fingerprinting: From Detection to Prevention and Practical Deployment
Eduardo Baena, Han Yang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Israat Haque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09700

A Comprehensive Survey on Smart Home IoT Fingerprinting: From Detection to Prevention and Practical Deployment
Smart homes are increasingly populated with heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices that interact continuously with users and the environment. This diversity introduces critical challenges in device identification, authentication, and security, where fingerprinting techniques have emerged as a key approach. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive analysis of IoT fingerprinting specifically in the context of smart homes, examining methods for device and their event detection, classific…

Nice project: A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02582
Interactive: https://diverc…

I hadn’t thought of this. Makes me worried for the game company’s future.
https://kotaku.com/sims-4-ea-saudi-arabia-acquisition-gay-relationships-2000640899

Dammit, I thought this was satire! 🤣
Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/us-state-department-reverts-times-new-roma…

Marco Rubio orders US State Department to revert to Times New Roman font, calling Calibri adoption 'wasteful'
In a leaked internal cable, Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls the department's decision to adopt Calibri in 2023 a "wasteful" diversity move.

Not very consistent is he, Mr Farage?

Exact Matching and Top-k Perfect Matching Parameterized by Neighborhood Diversity or Bandwidth
Nicolas El Maalouly, Kostas Lakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12552 https://…

Exact Matching and Top-k Perfect Matching Parameterized by Neighborhood Diversity or Bandwidth
The Exact Matching (EM) problem asks whether there exists a perfect matching which uses a prescribed number of red edges in a red/blue edge-colored graph. While there exists a randomized polynomial-time algorithm for the problem, only some special cases admit a deterministic one so far, making it a natural candidate for testing the P=RP hypothesis. A polynomial-time equivalent problem, Top-k Perfect Matching (TkPM), asks for a perfect matching maximizing the weight of the $k$ heaviest edges. …

This is so weird. I mean, I do think Times New Roman is one of a handful of correct choices for professional communication, and I do just _hate_ Calibri, but I don't understand what either font has to do with DEI.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharor, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08807

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot learning datasets and benchmarks mainly focus on stationary robot arms, and the few existing humanoid datasets are either confined to fixed environments or limited in task diversity, often lacking human-humanoid interaction and lower-body locomotion. Moreover, there are a few standardized evaluation platforms for benchmar…

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.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/5]:
- Feed Two Birds with One Scone: Exploiting Wild Data for Both Out-of-Distribution Generalization a...
Haoyue Bai, Gregory Canal, Xuefeng Du, Jeongyeol Kwon, Robert Nowak, Yixuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09158
- Sparse, Efficient and Explainable Data Attribution with DualXDA
Galip \"Umit Yolcu, Moritz Weckbecker, Thomas Wiegand, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12118 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/111962593972369958
- HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs
Sun, Que, {\AA}rrestad, Loncar, Ngadiuba, Luk, Spiropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112370274737558603
- On the Identification of Temporally Causal Representation with Instantaneous Dependence
Li, Shen, Zheng, Cai, Song, Gong, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15325 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112511890051553111
- Basis Selection: Low-Rank Decomposition of Pretrained Large Language Models for Target Applications
Yang Li, Daniel Agyei Asante, Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112517547424098076
- Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric
Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03735 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113089789682783135
- Low-Rank Filtering and Smoothing for Sequential Deep Learning
Joanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Nathanael Bosch, Agustinus Kristiadi, Philipp Hennig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113283021321510736
- Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification
Xiaoyu Tao, Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Yucong Luo, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18686 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113367101100828901
- Fairness via Independence: A (Conditional) Distance Covariance Framework
Ruifan Huang, Haixia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113587817648503815
- Data for Mathematical Copilots: Better Ways of Presenting Proofs for Machine Learning
Simon Frieder, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15184 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113683924322164777
- Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
Ishank Juneja, Carlee Joe-Wong, Osman Ya\u{g}an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392622871057
- Towards Human-Guided, Data-Centric LLM Co-Pilots
Evgeny Saveliev, Jiashuo Liu, Nabeel Seedat, Anders Boyd, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10321 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392688054204
- Regularized Langevin Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization
Shengyu Feng, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00277
- Generating Samples to Probe Trained Models
Eren Mehmet K{\i}ral, Nur\c{s}en Ayd{\i}n, \c{S}. \.Ilker Birbil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113984059089245671
- On Agnostic PAC Learning in the Small Error Regime
Julian Asilis, Mikael M{\o}ller H{\o}gsgaard, Grigoris Velegkas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09496 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114000974082372598
- Preconditioned Inexact Stochastic ADMM for Deep Model
Shenglong Zhou, Ouya Wang, Ziyan Luo, Yongxu Zhu, Geoffrey Ye Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10784 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023667639951005
- On the Effect of Sampling Diversity in Scaling LLM Inference
Wang, Liu, Chen, Light, Liu, Chen, Zhang, Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11027 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023688225233656
- How to use score-based diffusion in earth system science: A satellite nowcasting example
Randy J. Chase, Katherine Haynes, Lander Ver Hoef, Imme Ebert-Uphoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114516300594057680
- PEAR: Equal Area Weather Forecasting on the Sphere
Hampus Linander, Christoffer Petersson, Daniel Persson, Jan E. Gerken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114572963019603744
- Train Sparse Autoencoders Efficiently by Utilizing Features Correlation
Vadim Kurochkin, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev, Daniil Gavrilov, Nikita Balagansky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22255 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114589956040892075
- A Certified Unlearning Approach without Access to Source Data
Umit Yigit Basaran, Sk Miraj Ahmed, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Basak Guler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114658421178857085
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Among things I'm happy to see in the news -
Drag queen Pattie Gonia completes 100-mile trek raising $1m to make outdoors more ‘equitable’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/pattie-gonia-drag-queen-envir…

Prompt Optimization Across Multiple Agents for Representing Diverse Human Populations
Manh Hung Nguyen, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Adish Singla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07064 htt…

Prompt Optimization Across Multiple Agents for Representing Diverse Human Populations
The difficulty and expense of obtaining large-scale human responses make Large Language Models (LLMs) an attractive alternative and a promising proxy for human behavior. However, prior work shows that LLMs often produce homogeneous outputs that fail to capture the rich diversity of human perspectives and behaviors. Thus, rather than trying to capture this diversity with a single LLM agent, we propose a novel framework to construct a set of agents that collectively capture the diversity of a giv…

The Italian federation of newspaper publishers submits a complaint to Italy's communication watchdog calling for an investigation into Google's AI Overviews (Angela Giuffrida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Don’t let anyone tell you rubio has any substance under his attempts at style.
To say he is an empty suit would be an insult to suits.
“U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a ‘wasteful’ diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.”

Trump's Diversity Rollback Ends Crucial Aid for Deafblind Children Like Annie Garner (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p45#a251215p45

Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations
Sunny Yu, Ahmad Jabbar, Robert Hawkins, Dan Jurafsky, Myra Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12699

Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations
Different open-ended generation tasks require different degrees of output diversity. However, current LLMs are often miscalibrated. They collapse to overly homogeneous outputs for creative tasks and hallucinate diverse but incorrect responses for factual tasks. We argue that these two failure modes are unified by, and can both be addressed by, the notion of effective generation space size (GSS) -- the set of semantically distinct outputs a model considers for a prompt. We present GSSBench, a ta…

as a Locust who cannot take pleasure in the familiar, id really appreciate yalls credit card numbers. Infinite diversity!!

No matter how you identify, whether you are transgender, non-binary, intersex, queer, non-monogamous, or beyond any label, be true to yourself and embrace your identity with pride.
:heart_trans: 🏳️‍⚧️ :nonbinary_flag: :bisexual_pride: :genderfluid_flag: 🏳️‍🌈
What truly matters is coming from a place of kindness, respect, and openness. Celebrate your authentic self and extend that same warmth and welcome to others in all their beautiful diversity.

VQArt-Bench: A semantically rich VQA Benchmark for Art and Cultural Heritage
A. Alfarano (University of Zurich, Max Planck Society), L. Venturoli (University of Zurich, Max Planck Society), D. Negueruela del Castillo (University of Zurich, Max Planck Society)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12750

VQArt-Bench: A semantically rich VQA Benchmark for Art and Cultural Heritage
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in joint visual and linguistic tasks. However, existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmarks often fail to evaluate deep semantic understanding, particularly in complex domains like visual art analysis. Confined to simple syntactic structures and surface-level attributes, these questions fail to capture the diversity and depth of human visual inquiry. This limitation incentivizes models to exploit statisti…

MEGATRON: Reproducing the Diversity of High-Redshift Galaxy Spectra with Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations
Harley Katz, Martin P. Rey, Corentin Cadiou, Oscar Agertz, Jeremy Blaizot, Alex J. Cameron, Nicholas Choustikov, Julien Devriendt, Uliana Hauk, Gareth C. Jones, Taysun Kimm, Isaac Laseter, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Kosei Matsumoto, Autumn Pearce, Francisco Rodr\'iguez Montero, Joki Rosdahl, Mahsa Sanati, Aayush Saxena, Adrianne Slyz, Richard Stiskalek, Anatole Stor…

MEGATRON: Reproducing the Diversity of High-Redshift Galaxy Spectra with Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations
We present the MEGATRON suite of cosmological radiation hydrodynamics simulations following the formation of Milky Way-mass galaxies from the earliest cosmic epochs when Population III stars form to Cosmic Noon. The suite represents the first set of cosmological simulations that couples a vast non-equilibrium thermochemistry network of primordial species, metals, and molecules to multifrequency, on-the-fly radiation transport, allowing us to directly predict the spectral properties of early gal…

At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.”
Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim…

This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.” Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim …

SMILE: SeMantic Ids Enhanced CoLd Item Representation for Click-through Rate Prediction in E-commerce SEarch
Qihang Zhao, Zhongbo Sun, Xiaoyang Zheng, Xian Guo, Siyuan Wang, Zihan Liang, Mingcan Peng, Ben Chen, Chenyi Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12604

SMILE: SeMantic Ids Enhanced CoLd Item Representation for Click-through Rate Prediction in E-commerce SEarch
With the rise of modern search and recommendation platforms, insufficient collaborative information of cold-start items exacerbates the Matthew effect of existing platform items, challenging platform diversity and becoming a longstanding issue. Existing methods align items' side content with collaborative information to transfer collaborative signals from high-popularity items to cold-start items. However, these methods fail to account for the asymmetry between collaboration and content, nor th…

The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
Raffaele Cristodaro, Benjamin Kramer, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09443 ht…

The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
This paper investigates the impact of sanctions on Tornado Cash, a smart contract protocol designed to enhance transaction privacy. Following the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions against Tornado Cash in August 2022, platform activity declined sharply. We document a significant and sustained reduction in transaction volume, user diversity, and overall protocol utilization after the sanctions were imposed. Our analysis draws on transaction data from three major blockchains: Ethereum, B…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Genaro Su\'arez (American Museum of Natural History), Jacqueline K. Faherty (American Museum of Natural History), Ben Burningham (University of Hertfordshire), Caroline V. Morley (University of Texas at Austin), Johanna M. Vos (Trinity College Dublin), Brianna Lacy (University of California Santa Cruz, NASA Ames Research Center), Melanie J. Rowland (Ame…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Recent JWST/NIRSpec observations have revealed strong methane emission at 3.326 microns in the $\approx$482 K brown dwarf CWISEP J193518.59$-$154620.3 (W1935). Atmospheric modeling suggests the presence of a $\approx$300 K thermal inversion in its upper atmosphere, potentially driven by auroral activity. We present an extension of the retrieved spectra of W1935 with and without inversion spanning 1--20 microns, to identify thermal inversion-sensitive spectral features and explore the origin of …

Path Diffuser: Diffusion Model for Data-Driven Traffic Simulator
Da Saem Lee, Akash Karthikeyan, Yash Vardhan Pant, Sebastian Fischmeister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24995 https…

Path Diffuser: Diffusion Model for Data-Driven Traffic Simulator
Simulating diverse and realistic traffic scenarios is critical for developing and testing autonomous planning. Traditional rule-based planners lack diversity and realism, while learning-based simulators often replay, forecast, or edit scenarios using historical agent trajectories. However, they struggle to generate new scenarios, limiting scalability and diversity due to their reliance on fully annotated logs and historical data. Thus, a key challenge for a learning-based simulator's performanc…

Massive Logging Project Next to Yellowstone National Park Blocked by U.S. Court https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/massive-logging-project-next-to-yellowstone-national-park-blocked-by…

Massive Logging Project Next to Yellowstone National Park Blocked by U.S. Court
Center for Biological Diversity: MISSOULA, Mont.— In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, a federal court today struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log more than 16,500 acres of pine forests just outside Yellowstone National Park, in the Custer Gallatin National Forest.

InfiniHuman: Infinite 3D Human Creation with Precise Control
Yuxuan Xue, Xianghui Xie, Margaret Kostyrko, Gerard Pons-Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11650 https://

InfiniHuman: Infinite 3D Human Creation with Precise Control
Generating realistic and controllable 3D human avatars is a long-standing challenge, particularly when covering broad attribute ranges such as ethnicity, age, clothing styles, and detailed body shapes. Capturing and annotating large-scale human datasets for training generative models is prohibitively expensive and limited in scale and diversity. The central question we address in this paper is: Can existing foundation models be distilled to generate theoretically unbounded, richly annotated 3D …

:heart_trans: I love this flag! :heart_trans:
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Trans #TransRights

ShiZhi: A Chinese Lightweight Large Language Model for Court View Generation
Zhitian Hou, Kun Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

ShiZhi: A Chinese Lightweight Large Language Model for Court View Generation
Criminal Court View Generation (CVG) is a fundamental task in legal artificial intelligence, aiming to automatically generate the "Court View" section of a legal case document. Generating court views is challenging due to the diversity and complexity of case facts, and directly generating from raw facts may limit performance. In this paper, we present ShiZhi, the first large language model (LLM) specifically designed for court view generation. We construct a Chinese Court View Generation datase…

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning
Zican Hu, Shilin Zhang, Yafu Li, Jianhao Yan, Xuyang Hu, Leyang Cui, Xiaoye Qu, Chunlin Chen, Yu Cheng, Zhi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26209

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for incentivizing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to vast state-action spaces and reward sparsity in reasoning tasks, existing methods often struggle with deficient exploration and poor sample efficiency. In the paper, we propose \textbf{DIVER} (\textbf{D}iversity-\textbf{I}ncentivized Exploration for \textbf{V}ersatil\textbf{E} \textbf{R}easoning), an innovative framework that hi…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
The wages of our well-paid college graduates support the
self-righteous people in red America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/28/city-life-chicago-v…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
Urban urbanity: Chicago, New York and San Francisco through readers’ eyes.

The Role of Spiral Arms in Galaxies II: Similarities Amid Diversity
Bingqing Sun, Daniela Calzetti, Andrew J. Battisti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04328 https://

The Role of Spiral Arms in Galaxies II: Similarities Amid Diversity
The role of spiral arms in galaxies -- whether they enhance star formation efficiency or primarily act as material gatherers -- remains an open question. Observational studies have yielded ambiguous results, in part due to the choice of star formation rate (SFR) tracers and their inherent limitations. These limitations are addressed here by applying multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to individual arm and interarm regions. We expand on our previous study of two galaxies…

Breaking the Likelihood Trap: Consistent Generative Recommendation with Graph-structured Model
Qiya Yang, Xiaoxi Liang, Zeping Xiao, Yingjie Deng, Yalong Wang, Yongqi Liu, Han Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10127

Breaking the Likelihood Trap: Consistent Generative Recommendation with Graph-structured Model
Reranking, as the final stage of recommender systems, demands real-time inference, accuracy, and diversity. It plays a crucial role in determining the final exposure, directly influencing user experience. Recently, generative reranking has gained increasing attention for its strong ability to model complex dependencies among items. However, most existing methods suffer from the "likelihood trap", where high-likelihood sequences are often perceived as low-quality by humans. These models tend to …

Fidelity-Aware Data Composition for Robust Robot Generalization
Zizhao Tong, Di Chen, Sicheng Hu, Hongwei Fan, Liliang Chen, Guanghui Ren, Hao Tang, Hao Dong, Ling Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24797

Fidelity-Aware Data Composition for Robust Robot Generalization
Generalist robot policies trained on large-scale, visually homogeneous datasets can be susceptible to shortcut learning, which impairs their out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. While generative data augmentation is a common approach to introduce diversity, it presents a subtle challenge: data composition. Naively mixing real and synthetic data can corrupt the learning signal, as this process often prioritizes visual diversity at the expense of information fidelity. This paper suggests tha…

IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
Yinan Chen, Jiangning Zhang, Teng Hu, Yuxiang Zeng, Zhucun Xue, Qingdong He, Chengjie Wang, Yong Liu, Xiaobin Hu, Shuicheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11647

IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
Instruction-guided video editing has emerged as a rapidly advancing research direction, offering new opportunities for intuitive content transformation while also posing significant challenges for systematic evaluation. Existing video editing benchmarks fail to support the evaluation of instruction-guided video editing adequately and further suffer from limited source diversity, narrow task coverage and incomplete evaluation metrics. To address the above limitations, we introduce IVEBench, a mo…

The Biden administration may have shot the serif,
switching from Times New Roman font on the grounds that serif-less fonts such as Calibri are more accessible to readers with disabilities.
That’s all over now.
The State Department Action Request reads:
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products
and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program,
the Department is return…

Marco Rubio Has Spoken! Please Remove All of Your Woke Fonts.
Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri!

New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-report-on-us-pet-trade-reveals-harm-to-global-wildlife-imperiled-…

New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species
Center for Biological Diversity: 27 Million Wild Animals Imported for Pet Market Each Year

Condé United and The NewsGuild "strongly condemn" Teen Vogue's consolidation, saying it will throttle staff diversity and blunt its progressive political bent (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
The union, which reps staffers, says the move was "clearly designed" to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[6/7]:
- Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity
Zhang, Yu, Chong, Sicilia, Tomz, Manning, Shi

Bari Weiss
– a staunch Zionist and a fierce opponent of supposed wokeness and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
– famously left the New York Times opinion section,
claiming she had been bullied by her colleagues for her beliefs.
She started a Substack newsletter and eventually founded the wildly successful website Free Press.
Her rise has been meteoric. She “has ascended the mountain of journalism on a slingshot”, Jessica Testa of the New York T…

Pacific Pocket Mouse Declared Endangered Species Candidate in California https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/pacific-pocket-mouse-declared-endangered-species-candidate-in-california-2025-10…

Pacific Pocket Mouse Declared Endangered Species Candidate in California
Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Pacific pocket mouse a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, granting protections for them as the state conducts a yearlong review.

The University of Alabama suspends two student-run magazines, one focused on Black students and another on women's issues, citing federal anti-DEI guidance (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/university-of-alabama-dei-tru…

University of Alabama closes student magazines for women, Black students
The University of Alabama has suspended the publication of two student-run magazines — one primarily focused on Black students and another on women’s issues — citing federal guidance against diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses. A university official informed the editors of Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice magazines on Monday of the decision. A spokeswoman for the university said in a statement that the university is committed to helping all students but “must also c…

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protection-sought-f…

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect Allred’s flax under the Endangered Species Act.

On the one hand, it does little to accuse the MAGA right of hypocrisy,
because they expressly reject moral and logical consistency,
aiming only for dominance and retribution.
On the other, it’s worth examining the way they bamboozled a majority of Americans into
believing conservatives are simply fighting for the principles of free expression and intellectual diversity.
The key to understanding this is recognizing how the right worked around the limitations …

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.