Tootfinder

The situation in Ukraine is both horrific and inspiring.
The terror Russia has been unleashing for over 1300 days needs to be more widely understood and recognized.
US media will not do its job, they refuse to address the terror and truth that is so apparent and easily reported - if they only cared to do so.
Georgio is a journalist on the ground in Ukraine, reporting from the trenches of democracy.
He provides the receipts and gut-wrenching reports of Russian fuckery…

Wooden Windows and Steel Hearts
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Ah, the em-dash—so underrated, so misunderstood.
I don't understand why LLMs like them so much; they could have fixated on the semicolon (or parentheticals) just as easily. Still, I think nuking anything that uses it —correctly or otherwise— is overblown and reminiscent of security lines at airports: our society is unnecessarily fixated on 100% recall with no respect for precision.
Of course, this boils down to how some highly reactionary people still don't know how to type any d…

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

Bike helmet posting is apparently a great honey trap because many unreasonable people feel the strong urge to reply with their n=1 “very scientific analysis” and I can block them easily and never hear from them again about anything.

A "good regulator theorem" for embodied agents
Nathaniel Virgo, Martin Biehl, Manuel Baltieri, Matteo Capucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06326 https://

A "good regulator theorem" for embodied agents
In a classic paper, Conant and Ashby claimed that "every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system." Artificial Life has produced many examples of systems that perform tasks with apparently no model in sight; these suggest Conant and Ashby's theorem doesn't easily generalise beyond its restricted setup. Nevertheless, here we show that a similar intuition can be fleshed out in a different way: whenever an agent is able to perform a regulation task, it is possible for an observer …

MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder and LLM Fusion
Kosei Uemura, David Guzm\'an, Quang Phuoc Nguyen, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, En-shiun Annie Lee, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08105

MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder and LLM Fusion
Large language models excel in English but still struggle with complex reasoning in many low-resource languages (LRLs). Existing encoder-plus-decoder methods such as LangBridge and MindMerger raise accuracy on mid and high-resource languages, yet they leave a large gap on LRLs. We present MERLIN, a two-stage model-stacking framework that applies a curriculum learning strategy -- from general bilingual bitext to task-specific data -- and adapts only a small set of DoRA weights. On the AfriMGSM b…

liebe @…, in der Haltestelle Rauhes Haus, Richtung stadteinwärts, hängt ein Aushang, auf dem steht, dass die U4 am Sonnabend hier abfährt. In der Realität tut sie das aber nicht. Dafür hätte ich gern eine Erklärung.

it's wild out here #Uckermark #project25

Unpopular* opinion: when migrants are allowed to work normally and come and go as they please, they are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves when the conditions are good to visit or move back to The Old Country, and they integrate easily (or don't, as the case may be, but that goes for natives too)
*not really, I guess, but you're apparently required to say it

If you're not against the Trump administration and its full-blown destruction of science and democracy.. Then you are for it. So sad to see that this is apparently the path chosen by #DartmouthCollege, so easily contributing to the "divide and conquer" Trump strategy.

How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League’s Switzerland
Rob Wolfe writes about the policy of “institutional restraint” pursued by Sian Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College, in her dealings with student protests and Donald Trump’s Administration.

Brendan Carr says it is "worthwhile to have the FCC look into whether The View" and others qualify as bona fide news programs exempt from equal opportunity rule (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Brendan Carr Sets His Sights on ‘The View’ in Appearance on Conservative Radio Show
The FCC chair's latest comments come after he condemned 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' for remarks made about the Charlie Kirk shooter. Jimmy Kimmel's show was later "indefinitely" suspended by ABC.