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Jaguars' Brian Thomas Jr. was dealing with wrist injury in disastrous Week 2 outing against Bengals

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaguars

Inpainting-Guided Policy Optimization for Diffusion Large Language Models
Siyan Zhao, Mengchen Liu, Jing Huang, Miao Liu, Chenyu Wang, Bo Liu, Yuandong Tian, Guan Pang, Sean Bell, Aditya Grover, Feiyu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10396

Inpainting-Guided Policy Optimization for Diffusion Large Language Models
Masked diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are emerging as promising alternatives to autoregressive LLMs, offering competitive performance while supporting unique generation capabilities such as inpainting. We explore how inpainting can inform RL algorithm design for dLLMs. Aligning LLMs with reinforcement learning faces an exploration challenge: sparse reward signals and sample waste when models fail to discover correct solutions. While this inefficiency affects LLMs broadly, dLLMs offer a…

A Survey on Diffusion Language Models
Tianyi Li, Mingda Chen, Bowei Guo, Zhiqiang Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10875 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10875

A Survey on Diffusion Language Models
Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm. By generating tokens in parallel through an iterative denoising process, DLMs possess inherent advantages in reducing inference latency and capturing bidirectional context, thereby enabling fine-grained control over the generation process. While achieving a several-fold speed-up, recent advancements have allowed DLMs to show performance comparable to their …

Professor Caravello was swarmed by ICE agents and thrown into a van after he tried to assist a protestor in a wheelchair by getting a tear gas canister out from under their chair.
https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-profess…

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who was having difficulty moving after Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents threw canisters of tear gas at them and their fellow

Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making "Hypernova", through a spate of dealmaking (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b397f80d-5772-483b-9e48-b9fa83279c75

Sam LaPorta injury: Lions tight end dealing with undisclosed ailment, will miss 'a little bit of time'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sam-lap

Dialing a phone number in the same area code as your own yet still getting charged long distance fees because the number was an exception & outside of your local zone.
Heck, long distance charges for domestic calling in it of itself is probably a foreign concept to Millennials & GenZ.

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
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Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm (Justin Weinberg/Daily Nous)
https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-professor-reportedly-assaulted-abducted-during-ice-raid-on-farm/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p40#a250713p40

Reed in walking boot, leaving Packers concerned https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45936248/source-packers-jayden-reed-dealing-sprained-foot