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The Everyday Security of Living with Conflict
Jessica McClearn, Reem Talhouk, Rikke Bjerg Jensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09580 https://

The Everyday Security of Living with Conflict
When `cyber' is used as a prefix, attention is typically drawn to the technological and spectacular aspects of war and conflict -- and, by extension, security. We offer a different approach to engaging with and understanding security in such contexts, by foregrounding the everyday -- mundane -- experiences of security within communities living with and fleeing from war. We do so through three vignettes from our field research in Colombia, Lebanon and Sweden, respectively, and by highlighting th…

Everyday Beauty - Finding Music Everywhere
#inspiration #beauty
https://muz4now.com/2022/e…

Everyday Beauty - Finding Music Everywhere
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Even happy mousehunters want #safestreets everyday, not just #caturday

Even happy mousehunters want #safestreets everyday, not just #caturday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday (Metamorphosis MIX)
#ArrestedDevelopment
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/arrested-development-people-everyday-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JvodgYcsthsORxPsEYUoe

Creationism in everyday language bugs me. "Entity A made N dollars" or "… generated N kilowatts" when 'extracted' states what actually happened, and maybe promotes a clearer mindset?
#wordsoundpower

Skateboarding is not a crime!
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

Everyday We Stray Further From God's Light

DCIRNet: Depth Completion with Iterative Refinement for Dexterous Grasping of Transparent and Reflective Objects
Guanghu Xie, Zhiduo Jiang, Yonglong Zhang, Yang Liu, Zongwu Xie, Baoshi Cao, Hong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09491

DCIRNet: Depth Completion with Iterative Refinement for Dexterous Grasping of Transparent and Reflective Objects
Transparent and reflective objects in everyday environments pose significant challenges for depth sensors due to their unique visual properties, such as specular reflections and light transmission. These characteristics often lead to incomplete or inaccurate depth estimation, which severely impacts downstream geometry-based vision tasks, including object recognition, scene reconstruction, and robotic manipulation. To address the issue of missing depth information in transparent and reflective o…

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Rohit Mehra, Priyavanshi Pathania, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09370

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Advances in technologies like artificial intelligence and metaverse have led to a proliferation of software systems in business and everyday life. With this widespread penetration, the carbon emissions of software are rapidly growing as well, thereby negatively impacting the long-term sustainability of our environment. Hence, optimizing software from a sustainability standpoint becomes more crucial than ever. We believe that the adoption of automated tools that can identify energy-inefficient p…

Heading to London... and I'm am going to melt.

AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
Polina Kirichenko, Mark Ibrahim, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Samuel J. Bell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09038

AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
For Large Language Models (LLMs) to be reliably deployed in both everyday and high-stakes domains, knowing when not to answer is equally critical as answering correctly. Real-world user queries, which can be underspecified, ill-posed, or fundamentally unanswerable, require LLMs to reason about uncertainty and selectively abstain -- i.e., refuse to answer definitively. However, abstention remains understudied, without a systematic evaluation framework for modern LLMs. In this work, we introduce …

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
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Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate…
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Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

Simple everyday sourdough out of the oven. #sourdough #retrosuburbia #smallpleasures

Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from "bulletproof" hosts to "residential proxies" that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals

Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight
In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia
Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Hilke Schellmann, Mona Sloane, Allison Koenecke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08846

Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has transformed daily tasks from video transcription to workplace hiring. ASR systems' growing use warrants robust and standardized auditing approaches to ensure automated transcriptions of high and equitable quality. This is especially critical for people with speech and language disorders (such as aphasia) who may disproportionately depend on ASR systems to navigate everyday life. In this work, we identify three pitfalls in existing standard ASR auditing pro…

MobileGUI-RL: Advancing Mobile GUI Agent through Reinforcement Learning in Online Environment
Yucheng Shi, Wenhao Yu, Zaitang Li, Yonglin Wang, Hongming Zhang, Ninghao Liu, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05720

MobileGUI-RL: Advancing Mobile GUI Agent through Reinforcement Learning in Online Environment
Recently, there has been a surge of vision-based GUI agents designed to automate everyday mobile and web tasks. These agents interpret raw GUI screenshots and autonomously decide where to click, scroll, or type, which bypasses handcrafted rules and app-specific APIs. However, most existing methods trained GUI agent in the offline environment using pre-collected trajectories. This approach limits scalability, causes overfitting to specific UI templates, and leads to brittle policies when faced w…

https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-hiding-malicious-web-traffic-in-plain-sight/
Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight

Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight
In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

📈 Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16593 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Empowering COVID-19 Detection: Optimizing Performance Through Fine-Tuned EfficientNet Deep Learning Architecture
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly influenced the health and everyday experiences of individuals across the planet. It is a highly contagious respiratory disease requiring early and accurate detection to curb its rapid transmission. Initial testing methods primarily revolved around identifying the genetic composition of the coronavirus, exhibiting a relatively low detection rate and requiring a time-intensive procedure. To address this challenge, experts have suggested using radiolo…

Scoop: Trump hosting "everyday Americans" to squeeze GOP holdouts (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/trump-everyday-americans-big-beautiful-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p115#a250625p115

Human-AI Alignment of Multimodal Large Language Models with Speech-Language Pathologists in Parent-Child Interactions
Weiyan Shi, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05879

Human-AI Alignment of Multimodal Large Language Models with Speech-Language Pathologists in Parent-Child Interactions
Joint attention is a critical marker of early social-communicative development, yet remains difficult for caregivers to assess without expert guidance. In this work, we explore how multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can be aligned with the reasoning processes of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to support the interpretation of everyday parent-child interactions. We conducted in-depth interviews and video annotation studies with three experienced SLPs to uncover how they evaluate joint …

I wouldn't mind an RZE UTD-8000 (specifically the yellow one) but in Norway with taxes and everything that comes out at 2800kr… so yeah, I will probably save the money and keep it for future cycle purchaes.
https://www.rzewatches.com/pages/utd-8000-launch

UTD-8000 Launch
Built for the everyday adventurer, RZE Watches is a brand born out of the passion for perfecting the craft of titanium watches that fuse together durability, versatility and sustainability.

Learn to be horrified by the disregard for artistic integrity, by lies, by fascism, by racism, by sexism, by doomsday cult thinking leaking into everyday life, by climate disaster, by the ripping up of natural landscapes to make room for datacenter sprawls.

On the capabilities of LLMs for classifying and segmenting time series of fruit picking motions into primitive actions
Eleni Konstantinidou, Nikolaos Kounalakis, Nikolaos Efstathopoulos, Dimitrios Papageorgiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07745

On the capabilities of LLMs for classifying and segmenting time series of fruit picking motions into primitive actions
Despite their recent introduction to human society, Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly affected the way we tackle mental challenges in our everyday lives. From optimizing our linguistic communication to assisting us in making important decisions, LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are notably reducing our cognitive load by gradually taking on an increasing share of our mental activities. In the context of Learning by Demonstration (LbD), classifying and segmenting complex motions into primitiv…

Experimental Evaluation of Static Image Sub-Region-Based Search Models Using CLIP
Bastian J\"ackl, Vojt\v{e}ch Kloda, Daniel A. Keim, Jakub Loko\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06938

Experimental Evaluation of Static Image Sub-Region-Based Search Models Using CLIP
Advances in multimodal text-image models have enabled effective text-based querying in extensive image collections. While these models show convincing performance for everyday life scenes, querying in highly homogeneous, specialized domains remains challenging. The primary problem is that users can often provide only vague textual descriptions as they lack expert knowledge to discriminate between homogenous entities. This work investigates whether adding location-based prompts to complement the…

The pink tax is the extra price women pay for products that are also marketed to men
— think shampoo or clothing.
Back in 2015, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that across five industries, women were paying more for everyday products than men:
7 percent more for toys and accessories
8 percent more for adult clothing
13 percent more for personal care products
Although recent evidence suggests that the pink tax doesn’t apply to every pro…

How the “pink tariff” hurts women
Trump's trade war makes being a woman, and especially a Black woman, much more expensive.

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society https://www.socialifeoflaw.com/post/photographic-exhibition-on-authoritarianism-law-and-the-remaking-of-society

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

"My advice to young students today is to study language and mathematics. When you talk to a chatbot, you’re using everyday language to talk to a mathematical system that, in turn, talks back to you. Technical skills won’t be enough to deal with the unpredictable results in markets, so a broad-based knowledge of math and language will be the only way to adapt."

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sly & The Family Stone:
🎵 Everyday People
#NowPlaying #Sly #TheFamilyStone
https://itsjimmythegent.bandcamp.com/track/sly-the-family-stone-everyday-people-jimmy-the-gents-back2thabronx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZVZBc5xvMyV3WzWktn8i7

Urban Solitude II 🈳
城市孤独 II 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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"Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Rivers

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
...
This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

I built a free tool to help students compare the energy/water use of AI tasks—like a 3-sec video gen or 500-word GPT reply—to everyday ones like Netflix, Google, or cloud storage. Try it at https://what-uses-more.com
Adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local …

Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis! #climate

The Climate Reality Project
Get the tools, training, and network to fight climate change and together build the world we want.

ROS Help Desk: GenAI Powered, User-Centric Framework for ROS Error Diagnosis and Debugging
Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Samith Rajapaksha Jayasekara Widhanapathirana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07846

ROS Help Desk: GenAI Powered, User-Centric Framework for ROS Error Diagnosis and Debugging
As the robotics systems increasingly integrate into daily life, from smart home assistants to the new-wave of industrial automation systems (Industry 4.0), there's an increasing need to bridge the gap between complex robotic systems and everyday users. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework often utilised in writing robot software, providing tools and libraries for building complex robotic systems. However, ROS's distributed architecture and technical messaging system create b…

WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
Atsuyuki Miyai, Zaiying Zhao, Kazuki Egashira, Atsuki Sato, Tatsumi Sunada, Shota Onohara, Hiromasa Yamanishi, Mashiro Toyooka, Kunato Nishina, Ryoma Maeda, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01952

WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
Powered by a large language model (LLM), a web browsing agent operates web browsers in a human-like manner and offers a highly transparent path toward automating a wide range of everyday tasks. As web agents become increasingly capable and demonstrate proficiency in general browsing tasks, a critical question emerges: Can they go beyond general browsing to robustly handle tasks that are tedious and complex, or chores that humans often avoid doing themselves? In this paper, we introduce WebChore…

There are times when you're sitting on the toilet with tweezers in your hands, and suddenly realize what people would think if they saw you like that.
Also tweezers joined my everyday equipment. More convenient than nails.

I'm not surprised that Gitlab decided to run off a cliff to follow GitHub:
«AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request»
Everyday I'm more grateful for @… and @…!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/ai-coding-bot-allows-prompt-injection-with-a-pull-request/

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
https://ift.tt/7rRiHkw
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Photographic exhibition on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
Authoritarian regimes often use everyday laws and bureaucracy to target communities and consolidate power. From missing documents to viral jokes, ordinary actions can have extraordinary consequences. This exhibition explores how control is exercised through the mundane—and how people resist the quiet force of authoritarian rule.

Aww, the kitty is providing enrichment activity for the museum guard. 🐈‍⬛

From Street Form to Spatial Justice: Explaining Urban Exercise Inequality via a Triadic SHAP-Informed Framework
Minwei Zhao, Guosheng Yang, Zhuoni Zhang, Cai Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03570

From Street Form to Spatial Justice: Explaining Urban Exercise Inequality via a Triadic SHAP-Informed Framework
Urban streets are essential public spaces that facilitate everyday physical activity and promote health equity. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad, this study proposes a conceptual and methodological framework to quantify street-level exercise deprivation through the dimensions of conceived (planning and structure), perceived (visual and sensory), and lived (practice and experiential) urban spaces. We integrate multi-source spatial data-including street networks, street-view imagery, and…

It's complete madness, I now have to use several extensions in Firefox to stop autotranslating on sites like Youtube and Reddit, since there is no way to deactivate that in the settings of each site. The internet is getting more stupid everyday.

"Debug Like a Pro: Improve Your Efficiency with Visual Studio & Copilot" is worth watching.
#visualstudio #build

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06415 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Biased AI can Influence Political Decision-Making
As modern large language models (LLMs) become integral to everyday tasks, concerns about their inherent biases and their potential impact on human decision-making have emerged. While bias in models are well-documented, less is known about how these biases influence human decisions. This paper presents two interactive experiments investigating the effects of partisan bias in LLMs on political opinions and decision-making. Participants interacted freely with either a biased liberal, biased conser…

North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans
https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa727

On the Practices of Autonomous Systems Development: Survey-based Empirical Findings
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Denny Hood, Johann Schumann, Noble Nkwocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04438

On the Practices of Autonomous Systems Development: Survey-based Empirical Findings
Autonomous systems have gained an important role in many industry domains and are beginning to change everyday life. However, due to dynamically emerging applications and often proprietary constraints, there is a lack of information about the practice of developing autonomous systems. This paper presents the first part of the longitudinal study focused on establishing state-of-the-practice, identifying and quantifying the challenges and benefits, identifying the processes and standards used, an…

😰 VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
#vr

VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
Everyday situations can sometimes feel like big stressors, whether it's delivering an important work presentation, attending a party full of strangers or confronting a partner. Talking to a friend or a therapist can help. But so can practice.

Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis! #climate

The Climate Reality Project
Get the tools, training, and network to fight climate change and together build the world we want.

Confocal Raman microscopy inside sessile multicomponent droplets
Alexander Erb, Johanna Steinmann, Youngeun Lee, Robert W. Stark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00208

Confocal Raman microscopy inside sessile multicomponent droplets
Evaporating multicomponent droplets are ubiquitous and appear in a variety of everyday situations and technological applications, including coating, 3D printing, and energy conversion processes. During evaporation, concentration gradients are typically induced, resulting in flows within the droplets. Many of the mechanisms underlying multicomponent droplet evaporation are not fully understood. However, most methods utilize markers that can be surface active and thus affect droplet dynamics. Thu…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
DJ Werkha:
🎵 Everyday (feat. Ríoghnach Connolly)
#DJWerkha

03:35—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
- https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/839638250579307406
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RL-based Adaptive Task Offloading in Mobile-Edge Computing for Future IoT Networks
Ziad Qais Al Abbasi, Khaled M. Rabie, Senior Member, Xingwang Li, Senior Member, Wali Ullah Khan, Asma Abu Samah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22474

RL-based Adaptive Task Offloading in Mobile-Edge Computing for Future IoT Networks
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks to cloud service stations that are usually located at far distances. Having to transmit data far distances introduces challenges for services that require low latency such as industrial control in factories and plants as well as artificial intelligence assiste…

My largest remaining NSF grant, which was awarded by a competitive process on the recommendation of national experts, was terminated yesterday. The money would have paid for PhD students to invent better AI systems for everyday people who need programs written for them but can't or won't write them themselves. I'm sad that the rate of progress we make will slow down significantly, because all our progress is made public for everyone to benefit from. That's what

A commitment to disabled users deserves more than one day a year.
Subscribe to the Accessibility Weekly email newsletter! Every Monday you'll learn the latest scuttlebutt from expert disabled users and digital accessibility professionals.
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Everybody is crushing their challenges, but I'm ashamed to have lost my 0 post challenge for this year :) Here is the evidence: https://www-gem.codeberg.page/picom/.

Features-based embedding or Feature-grounding
Piotr Makarevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22442 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.22442

Features-based embedding or Feature-grounding
In everyday reasoning, when we think about a particular object, we associate it with a unique set of expected properties such as weight, size, or more abstract attributes like density or horsepower. These expectations are shaped by our prior knowledge and the conceptual categories we have formed through experience. This paper investigates how such knowledge-based structured thinking can be reproduced in deep learning models using features based embeddings. Specially, it introduces an specific a…

Identity and Cooperation in Multicultural Societies: An Experimental Investigation
Natalia Montinari, Matteo Ploner, Veronica Rattini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02511

Identity and Cooperation in Multicultural Societies: An Experimental Investigation
Immigration has shaped many nations, posing the challenge of integrating immigrants into society. While economists often focus on immigrants' economic outcomes compared to natives (such as education, labor market success, and health) social interactions between immigrants and natives are equally crucial. These interactions, from everyday exchanges to teamwork, often lack enforceable contracts and require cooperation to avoid conflicts and achieve efficient outcomes. However, socioeconomic, ethn…

I'm not surprised that Gitlab decided to run off a cliff to follow GitHub:
«AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request»
Everyday I'm more grateful for @… and @…!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/ai-coding-bot-allows-prompt-injection-with-a-pull-request/

Automatic Reviewers Assignment to a Research Paper Based on Allied References and Publications Weight
Tamim Al Mahmud, B M Mainul Hossain, Dilshad Ara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21331

Automatic Reviewers Assignment to a Research Paper Based on Allied References and Publications Weight
Everyday, a vast stream of research documents is submitted to conferences, anthologies, journals, newsletters, annual reports, daily papers, and various periodicals. Many such publications use independent external specialists to review submissions. This process is called peer review, and the reviewers are called referees. However, it is not always possible to pick the best referee for reviewing. Moreover, new research fields are emerging in every sector, and the number of research papers is inc…

Facade 🏢
立面 🏢
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fomapan 400 Action
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Hello Afrika: Speech Commands in Kinyarwanda
George Igwegbe, Martins Awojide, Mboh Bless, Nirel Kadzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01024 https://

Hello Afrika: Speech Commands in Kinyarwanda
Voice or Speech Commands are a subset of the broader Spoken Word Corpus of a language which are essential for non-contact control of and activation of larger AI systems in devices used in everyday life especially for persons with disabilities. Currently, there is a dearth of speech command models for African languages. The Hello Afrika project aims to address this issue and its first iteration is focused on the Kinyarwanda language since the country has shown interest in developing speech recog…

"Hi AirStar, Guide Me to the Badminton Court."
Ziqin Wang, Jinyu Chen, Xiangyi Zheng, Qinan Liao, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04430

"Hi AirStar, Guide Me to the Badminton Court."
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, operating in environments with relatively few obstacles, offer high maneuverability and full three-dimensional mobility. This allows them to rapidly approach objects and perform a wide range of tasks often challenging for ground robots, making them ideal for exploration, inspection, aerial imaging, and everyday assistance. In this paper, we introduce AirStar, a UAV-centric embodied platform that turns a UAV into an intelligent aerial assistant: a large language model a…

Republican plans to cap student borrowing could shatter an everyday profession (Rebecca Carballo/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/republican-medical-student-loan-limits-00415741
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p50#a250621p50

Tube into pearls: A membrane-driven pearling instability shapes platelet biogenesis
C. L\'eon, N. Brassard-Jollive, D. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. Riveline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19966

Tube into pearls: A membrane-driven pearling instability shapes platelet biogenesis
At the end of the 19th century, Rayleigh and Plateau explained the physical principle behind the fragmentation of a liquid jet into regular droplets commonly observed in everyday life from a faucet. The classical Rayleigh-Plateau instability concerns liquid jets governed by inertia and surface tension, whereas biological tubes are membrane-bounded and inertia-free. We therefore refer to the process observed here as a pearling instability, formally analogous to Rayleigh-Plateau but dominated by …

why is Rob refsnyder not the everyday first baseman atp

Dependency of quantum time scales on symmetry
Fei Guo, Dmitrii Usanov, Eduardo B. Guedes, Mauro Fanciulli, Kaishu Kawaguchi, Ryo Mori, Takeshi Kondo, Arnaud Magrez, Michele Puppin, Hugo Dil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01476

Dependency of quantum time scales on symmetry
Although used extensively in everyday life, time is one of the least understood quantities in physics, especially on the level of quantum mechanics. Here we use an experimental method based on spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy from spin-degenerate dispersive states to determine the Eisenbud-Wigner-Smith (EWS) time delay of photoemission. This time scale of the quantum transition is measured for materials with different dimensionality and correlation strength. A direct link bet…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday
#ArrestedDevelopment
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/arrested-development-people-everyday-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JvodgYcsthsORxPsEYUoe

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack
Jonathan Greenblatt accused commencement speakers of spreading antisemitic lies — and suggested they’re responsible for violent attacks.

Conversational AI as a Catalyst for Informal Learning: An Empirical Large-Scale Study on LLM Use in Everyday Learning
Na{\dj}a Terzimehi\'c, Babette B\"uhler, Enkelejda Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11789

Conversational AI as a Catalyst for Informal Learning: An Empirical Large-Scale Study on LLM Use in Everyday Learning
Large language models have not only captivated the public imagination but have also sparked a profound rethinking of how we learn. In the third year following the breakthrough launch of ChatGPT, everyday informal learning has been transformed as diverse user groups explore these novel tools. Who is embracing LLMs for self-directed learning, and who remains hesitant? What are their reasons for adoption or avoidance? What learning patterns emerge with this novel technological landscape? We presen…

Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Sonia K. Murthy, Rosie Zhao, Jennifer Hu, Sham Kakade, Markus Wulfmeier, Peng Qian, Tomer Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20666

Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Navigating everyday social situations often requires juggling conflicting goals, such as conveying a harsh truth, maintaining trust, all while still being mindful of another person's feelings. These value trade-offs are an integral part of human decision-making and language use, however, current tools for interpreting such dynamic and multi-faceted notions of values in LLMs are limited. In cognitive science, so-called "cognitive models" provide formal accounts of these trade-offs in humans, by …

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Physics education research: Resources for graduate student instructors
This resource letter intends to provide physics instructors - particularly graduate student teaching assistants - at the introductory university level with a small but representative collection of resources to acquire a familiarity with research in physics education for guidance in everyday instruction. The resources are in the form of books, articles, websites, journals, and organizations.

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SR3D: Unleashing Single-view 3D Reconstruction for Transparent and Specular Object Grasping
Recent advancements in 3D robotic manipulation have improved grasping of everyday objects, but transparent and specular materials remain challenging due to depth sensing limitations. While several 3D reconstruction and depth completion approaches address these challenges, they suffer from setup complexity or limited observation information utilization. To address this, leveraging the power of single view 3D object reconstruction approaches, we propose a training free framework SR3D that enables…

Who's Sorry Now: User Preferences Among Rote, Empathic, and Explanatory Apologies from LLM Chatbots
Zahra Ashktorab, Alessandra Buccella, Jason D'Cruz, Zoe Fowler, Andrew Gill, Kei Yan Leung, P. D. Magnus, John Richards, Kush R. Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02745

Who's Sorry Now: User Preferences Among Rote, Empathic, and Explanatory Apologies from LLM Chatbots
As chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in everyday contexts, their ability to recover from errors through effective apologies is critical to maintaining user trust and satisfaction. In a preregistered study with Prolific workers (N=162), we examine user preferences for three types of apologies (rote, explanatory, and empathic) issued in response to three categories of common LLM mistakes (bias, unfounded fabrication, and factual errors). We designed a pairw…

Governments Should Mandate Tiered Anonymity on Social-Media Platforms to Counter Deepfakes and LLM-Driven Mass Misinformation
David Khachaturov, Roxanne Schnyder, Robert Mullins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12814

Governments Should Mandate Tiered Anonymity on Social-Media Platforms to Counter Deepfakes and LLM-Driven Mass Misinformation
This position paper argues that governments should mandate a three-tier anonymity framework on social-media platforms as a reactionary measure prompted by the ease-of-production of deepfakes and large-language-model-driven misinformation. The tiers are determined by a given user's $\textit{reach score}$: Tier 1 permits full pseudonymity for smaller accounts, preserving everyday privacy; Tier 2 requires private legal-identity linkage for accounts with some influence, reinstating real-world accou…

User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the "Sunday Blues"
Zhuochao Peng, Jiaxin Xu, Jun Hu, Haian Xue, Laurens A. G. Kolks, Pieter M. A. Desmet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00271

User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the "Sunday Blues"
While recent research highlights the potential of social robots to support mood regulation, little is known about how prospective users view their integration into everyday life. To explore this, we conducted an exploratory case study that used a speculative robot concept "Mora" to provoke reflection and facilitate meaningful discussion about using social robots to manage subtle, day-to-day emotional experiences. We focused on the "Sunday Blues," a common dip in mood that occurs at the end of t…

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Feel the Force: Contact-Driven Learning from Humans
Ademi Adeniji, Zhuoran Chen, Vincent Liu, Venkatesh Pattabiraman, Raunaq Bhirangi, Siddhant Haldar, Pieter Abbeel, Lerrel Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01944

Feel the Force: Contact-Driven Learning from Humans
Controlling fine-grained forces during manipulation remains a core challenge in robotics. While robot policies learned from robot-collected data or simulation show promise, they struggle to generalize across the diverse range of real-world interactions. Learning directly from humans offers a scalable solution, enabling demonstrators to perform skills in their natural embodiment and in everyday environments. However, visual demonstrations alone lack the information needed to infer precise contac…

Supernova Event Dataset: Interpreting Large Language Model's Personality through Critical Event Analysis
Pranav Agarwal, Ioana Ciuc\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12189

Supernova Event Dataset: Interpreting Large Language Model's Personality through Critical Event Analysis
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into everyday applications. As their influence grows, understanding their decision making and underlying personality becomes essential. In this work, we interpret model personality using our proposed Supernova Event Dataset, a novel dataset with diverse articles spanning biographies, historical events, news, and scientific discoveries. We use this dataset to benchmark LLMs on extracting and ranking key events from text, a subjective and c…

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One Does Not Simply 'Mm-hmm': Exploring Backchanneling in the AAC Micro-Culture
Tobias Weinberg, Claire O'Connor, Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela, Stephanie Valencia, Thijs Roumen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17890

One Does Not Simply 'Mm-hmm': Exploring Backchanneling in the AAC Micro-Culture
Backchanneling (e.g., "uh-huh", "hmm", a simple nod) encompasses a big part of everyday communication; it is how we negotiate the turn to speak, it signals our engagement, and shapes the flow of our conversations. For people with speech and motor impairments, backchanneling is limited to a reduced set of modalities, and their Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) technology requires visual attention, making it harder to observe non-verbal cues of conversation partners. We explore how…