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Arming teenagers recklessly for Christmas has a long and sordid history. @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115802572107327288

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Trump Pardon of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao Is Rewriting Crypto History
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

"The number of women globally who commit violent crimes is very small – in 2021 they were responsible for just 10% of homicides. Indeed, women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. But when women do kill, in many cases the victim is a male partner or family member and there is a history of domestic abuse."

This is a truly fascinating use of LLMs. I hope we get to see this soon.
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
A family of 4 billion (B) parameter LLMs based on the Qwen3 architecture trained on 80B tokens of historical data up to knowledge-cutoffs : 1913, 1929, 1933, 1939…

GitHub - DGoettlich/history-llms: Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs.
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms

Don't trust your family history to the cloud or an online software company. #Ancestris version 13 is out. https://www.ancestris.org/index.html It's free and has some unique tools and reports not foun…

A little Christmas theology, a little history, a little football, and a lot of wandering thoughts. From censuses and mangers to Michigan football and year-end reflections—this week’s post covers a lot of ground. 🎄🏈📖
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/censuses-

Censuses, Carpenters, and the Myth of the Lonely Manger – Bob Mueller
Thoughtful reflections on censuses, Christmas myths, family, football, and faith—reexamining the Nativity story and a year in review.

@… introduced secure #backups: https://signal.org/blog/introducing-se

Finally, what Xia & Lindell call a "separation problem" is, in our view, a feature of our approach and not a bug.
If, e.g., all languages in a family are polysynthetic (or none are), that’s not a statistical artefact – it’s the signal. The outcome is well associated with genealogy, showing that family membership captures someth genuinely informative about the process. When the model finds that family explains a large share of the variance, that's not a failure–it's evidence that phylogenetic structure dominates the pattern.
So while Xia & Lindell insist that "autocorrelation due to relationships and distance cannot be captured in family or regional-level analyses", we see that as an empirical question – and we treated it as one.
The real test is whether a mixed model that explicitly represents phylogeny and geography performs worse than their alternative, where the entire shared history of languages and environments is effectively collapsed into a single dimension (an eigenvector).
In other words: we model relationships – Xia & Lindell summarise them into one number per language.

Day 24: Yvonne Adhiambra Owuor
Owuor wrote "Dust", a novel that follows a scattered family's struggles with intergenerational trauma through a vivid tapestry of Kenyan history. Not only is it full of carefully rendered complex characters who both deal with their own issues and who are entangled in larger threads, but it also depicts a series of deeply personal reactions to and interactions with historical moments that give a gestalt sense of the painful history of Kenya both during and after the colonial era.
It's a gripping read despite not having a traditional suspense structure, where in the last third of the book every chapter seems to be tying up one more loose thread you had almost forgotten about, only to leave a little more still to discover, right up to the end. Owuor's skill at constructing such a detailed and complex plot and especially in navigating it to a satisfying conclusion is impressive, and her depictions of human foibles and struggles in the face of grief and not-wanting-to-know are relatable.
CW for domestic abuse, state murder, genocide, torture, etc.
#30AuthorsNoMen

übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

La pšguina web de la Casa Blanca tiene una sección tróspida hasta la nausea.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/
En la sección Major Events viene información sobre la construcción de las diferentes fases del edificio, vas pasan…

“My guess is he is getting Kisunla treatments, a monoclonal antibody drug given by monthly infusions to remove amyloid plaques from his brain. It is given to people with signs of Alzheimer’s who have a family history or other risk factors."
'I Was Thinking the Same Thing!': Trump’s Vanishing Acts Keep Lining Up Too Perfectly—Now the Internet’s Convinced They Know What He’s Been Up To
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/06/trumps-vanishing-acts-keep-lining-up-too-perfectlynow-the-internets-convinced-they-know-what-happens-every-28-days/

Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather Siegfried’s unpublished memoir, the writer Joe Dunthorne discovers a confession. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c4x0 A tragic family story but an example of retelling for the next generation. Available globally as 'The History Podcast'

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Half-Life, 1. Daughter of Radium
Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne finds a confession.

The House at Number 48: When Antony Easton's father passes away, he begins a ten-year quest to uncover his family’s dark past and reclaim their fortune, stolen under the Nazis. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l461 An excellent example of researching and retelling a family tragedy to the next…

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, The House at Number 48, 1. Made in Britain
A man’s quest to uncover his family’s dark past & reclaim a fortune stolen under the Nazis

Quiver Yangian algebras associated to Dynkin diagrams of A-type and their rectangular representations
A. Gavshin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02121 https://a…

Quiver Yangian algebras associated to Dynkin diagrams of A-type and their rectangular representations
The connection between simple Lie algebras and their Yangian algebras has a long history. In this work, we construct finite-dimensional representations of Yangian algebras $\mathsf{Y}(\mathfrak{sl}_{n})$ using the quiver approach. Starting from quivers associated to Dynkin diagrams of type A, we construct a family of quiver Yangians. We show that the quiver description of these algebras enables an effective construction of representations with a single non-zero Dynkin label. For these represent…