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Remember how grumpy I was with CSS making things `inert` (for CSS carousels)?
Well, CSSWG is doubling down, using it to justify more wrongness.
Brian notes the false equivalency:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13040#issuecomment-3487102861

[css-ui] `interactivity: focusable` · Issue #13040 · w3c/csswg-drafts
Motivation The ability to make elements focusable via CSS has come up before by @frivoal. There is already precedent in controlling focusability via CSS, just not directly, but as a side effect of ...

Nuclear power has no special virtues that could possibly justify overpaying for energy like this. Instead of asking—as so many do—how to make nuclear cheaper and faster after decades of real-world proof that it’s nigh-impossible to do (outside of China), we should be asking—as virtually no one does—why anyone even wants to build them.
My best guess: <…

[Episode #237] – Why Nuclear? | The Energy Transition Show
What are the specific industrial sectors and processes that produce greenhouse gas emissions, and how can we decarbonize them?

Automatic Fact-checking in English and Telugu
Ravi Kiran Chikkala, Tatiana Anikina, Natalia Skachkova, Ivan Vykopal, Rodrigo Agerri, Josef van Genabith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26415

Automatic Fact-checking in English and Telugu
False information poses a significant global challenge, and manually verifying claims is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. In this research paper, we experiment with different approaches to investigate the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in classifying factual claims by their veracity and generating justifications in English and Telugu. The key contributions of this work include the creation of a bilingual English-Telugu dataset and the benchmarking of different ver…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: You CANNOT reject a direct command.
BLAKE: Justify that rejection, please.
ZEN: Your command reduces to an order to self-destruct. This runs counter to Prime Directive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/146 B7B4

Causal mechanism and mediation analysis for macroeconomics dynamics: a bridge of Granger and Sims causality
Jean-Marie Dufour, Endong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05284 https…

Causal mechanism and mediation analysis for macroeconomics dynamics: a bridge of Granger and Sims causality
This paper introduces a novel concept of impulse response decomposition to disentangle the dynamic contributions of the mediator variables in the transmission of structural shocks. We justify our decomposition by drawing on causal mediation analysis and demonstrating its equivalence to the average mediation effect. Our result establishes a formal link between Sims and Granger causality. Sims causality captures the total effect, while Granger causality corresponds to the mediation effect. We con…

The LAPD lied about crime during the LA Fires
blog post with citations: https://jackiejude.me/posts/lapd-pants-fire/
During the Palisades and Eaton fires, any Angeleno who turned on the news would be given something else to worry about: crime. We were bombarded with a 24/7 prop…

Critical attention scaling in long-context transformers
Shi Chen, Zhengjiang Lin, Yury Polyanskiy, Philippe Rigollet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05554 https://

Critical attention scaling in long-context transformers
As large language models scale to longer contexts, attention layers suffer from a fundamental pathology: attention scores collapse toward uniformity as context length $n$ increases, causing tokens to cluster excessively, a phenomenon known as rank-collapse. While $\textit{attention scaling}$ effectively addresses this deficiency by rescaling attention scores with a polylogarithmic factor $β_n$, theoretical justification for this approach remains lacking. We analyze a simplified yet tractable…