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Raiders claim former Titans DT to fill roster spot after release of Christian Wilkins https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/25/raiders-claim-former-titans-dt-followin…

It is because I'm a curmudgeon that the first Test this year of England v India doesn't fill me with joy.
I should be happy that unorthodox batting has overwhelmed the sport.
I should also admit I didn't watch most of it, but that's because I have never watched it just for the batting. If it isn't a teetering balance between the three disciplines of batting, bowling and fielding then it isn't a sport.
Would baseball fans like a game of base hits or …

Ranked choice ballots give voters more options -- but make ballots harder to fill out (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ranked-choice-ballots-give-voters-options-make-ballots-harder-fill-rcna214026
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p14#a250623p14

Sources: Saints eye Blackmon to replace Mathieu https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45800133/saints-eye-julian-blackmon-fill-free-safety-void

Meet Aeneas: the AI that can fill in the gaps of damaged Latin texts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02335-x?utm_source=Live Audience&utm_campaign=371cd4c3c5-nature-briefing-daily-20250724

A Complete Loss Landscape Analysis of Regularized Deep Matrix Factorization
Po Chen, Rujun Jiang, Peng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20344 https://

A Complete Loss Landscape Analysis of Regularized Deep Matrix Factorization
Despite its wide range of applications across various domains, the optimization foundations of deep matrix factorization (DMF) remain largely open. In this work, we aim to fill this gap by conducting a comprehensive study of the loss landscape of the regularized DMF problem. Toward this goal, we first provide a closed-form expression of all critical points. Building on this, we establish precise conditions under which a critical point is a local minimizer, a global minimizer, a strict saddle po…

Pakistan may have withdrawn its nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace prize, but maga-bot Buddy Carter, once again having no actual ideas of his own, steps up to fill the breach.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administr

Finally got a chance to document something that was hard and may help an entire two people 🙂 Enjoy.
https://blog.faucher.live/how-to-expand-an-asustor-flashstor-raid0-volume/

Regional Frequency-Constrained Planning for the Optimal Sizing of Power Systems via Enhanced Input Convex Neural Networks
Yi Wang, Goran Strbac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18102 …

Regional Frequency-Constrained Planning for the Optimal Sizing of Power Systems via Enhanced Input Convex Neural Networks
Large renewable penetration has been witnessed in power systems, resulting in reduced levels of system inertia and increasing requirements for frequency response services. There have been plenty of studies developing frequency-constrained models for power system security. However, most existing literature only considers uniform frequency security, while neglecting frequency spatial differences in different regions. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a novel planning model for the optimal siz…

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

PS-GS: Gaussian Splatting for Multi-View Photometric Stereo
Yixiao Chen, Bin Liang, Hanzhi Guo, Yongqing Cheng, Jiayi Zhao, Dongdong Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18231 https:…

PS-GS: Gaussian Splatting for Multi-View Photometric Stereo
Integrating inverse rendering with multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) yields more accurate 3D reconstructions than the inverse rendering approaches that rely on fixed environment illumination. However, efficient inverse rendering with MVPS remains challenging. To fill this gap, we introduce the Gaussian Splatting for Multi-view Photometric Stereo (PS-GS), which efficiently and jointly estimates the geometry, materials, and lighting of the object that is illuminated by diverse directional ligh…

Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jagadeswara PKV Pothuri, Aditya Bhatt, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Manaswin Oddiraju, Souma Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18264

Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could be range limited, and may not be feasible in remote areas, crowded cities or in dense vegetation areas. Vision based active tracking of aerial objects from another airborne vehicle, e.g., a chaser unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), promises to fill this important …

We all have but one single life.... yet some people choose to fill it with hate and making other living beings lifes miserable too, instead of filling this world with beauty and joy.
What a waste.

One player each NFC team should add to fill its biggest need https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/one-player-each-nfc-team-should-add-fill-its-biggest-need

Dynamic Simulation Framework for Disinformation Dissemination and Correction With Social Bots
Boyu Qiao, Kun Li, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16848 https://…

Dynamic Simulation Framework for Disinformation Dissemination and Correction With Social Bots
In the human-bot symbiotic information ecosystem, social bots play key roles in spreading and correcting disinformation. Understanding their influence is essential for risk control and better governance. However, current studies often rely on simplistic user and network modeling, overlook the dynamic behavior of bots, and lack quantitative evaluation of correction strategies. To fill these gaps, we propose MADD, a Multi Agent based framework for Disinformation Dissemination. MADD constructs a m…

🚯 Postcard from California: Plastics ‘recycling’ – out of sight, out of mind
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/07/postcard-from-california-plastics-recycling-out-of-sight-out-of-mind/

Postcard from California: Plastics ‘recycling’ – out of sight, out of mind
By Bill Walker Last year California shipped more than 156 million pounds of plastic waste to poor countries, with almost three-fourths sent to Mexico and another 44 million pounds sent to developing nations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. That’s the reality behind the blue recycling bins Californians fill with plastic waste for curbside pickup. We may think we’re recycling, but we’re really sending much of our waste out of sight, out of mind.

It's a perfect early evening for our solar-system-themed kid's activities: little painted stars glowing in the sunlight at the face painting station, swirling planets painted on busy little arms, and of course everything is in motion at the bouncy castle!
@…

Following Trump cut to LGBTQ youth suicide hotline, California steps up to fill the gap | Governor of California
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/16/following-trump-cut-to-lgbtq-youth-suicide-hotline-california-steps-up-to-fill-the-gap/

In both cases, the message is clear:
“Trump is really with •those other people•. Trump never cared about •you•. Trump never really wanted what •you• want. He just wants your money and your vote. He thinks you owe him your vote. Well you don’t.”
You know the playbook. If you’re having trouble coming up with it, just conjure up what the trolls did in your replies about Biden, turn that into a Mad Lib, and fill in the blanks for Trump supporters.
/end

Death and Cynic were huge influences when they came out in the early 90s. Not that you'd know it as I play Dua Lipa for a living 🤣
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/paul-masvidal-on-cynic-and-death

“Chuck Schuldiner called to see if I could fill in for some Death shows in Mexico. I was still in high school, but I learned the set in a few days and jumped on”: Paul Masvidal on taking progressive extreme metal to new heights with Cynic and Death
The virtuoso took a detour from heavy music to work on TV and film scores in the ’90s. Now he’s working on new material with Cynic – and a signature guitar with Kiesel. He explains how he came to join and leave Death, and how sexuality has informed his take on metal

If we just build a building the size of Manhattan and fill it with pet rocks, AGI will spontaneously erupt

A first look at License Variants in the PyPI Ecosystem
Weiwei Xu, Hengzhi Ye, Kai Gao, Minghui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14594 https://

A first look at License Variants in the PyPI Ecosystem
Open-source licenses establish the legal foundation for software reuse, yet license variants, including both modified standard licenses and custom-created alternatives, introduce significant compliance complexities. Despite their prevalence and potential impact, these variants are poorly understood in modern software systems, and existing tools do not account for their existence, leading to significant challenges in both effectiveness and efficiency of license analysis. To fill this knowledge g…

The metric system is 150 years old. The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-met…

The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since
The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

Pranksters Fill Trump Tower Gift Shop With Epstein Postcards (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pranksters-fill-trump-tower-gift-shop-with-epstein-postcards/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p129#a250718p129

*showing new JavaScript from the weekend*
"So now when I type numbers in here, the subtotal updates."
"Nice."
"…and when I type a letter, it doesn't fill all of the other fields with NaN."
"Oh wow. You're in the top 2% of all JavaScript now!”

Auto-grader Feedback Utilization and Its Impacts: An Observational Study Across Five Community Colleges
Adam Zhang, Heather Burte, Jaromir Savelka, Christopher Bogart, Majd Sakr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14235

Auto-grader Feedback Utilization and Its Impacts: An Observational Study Across Five Community Colleges
Automated grading systems, or auto-graders, have become ubiquitous in programming education, and the way they generate feedback has become increasingly automated as well. However, there is insufficient evidence regarding auto-grader feedback's effectiveness in improving student learning outcomes, in a way that differentiates students who utilized the feedback and students who did not. In this study, we fill this critical gap. Specifically, we analyze students' interactions with auto-graders in …

Oof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, writing in 1995:

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

San Francisco 49ers: Can the 49ers rely on young players to fill holes? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45784928/san-francisco-49ers-2025-training-camp-preview-roster-projection-brock-purdy-christian-…

Since moving ALL* my cacti and succulents from my office to my bedroom, they are doing SO much better! Clearly south facing window was too much for them.
Anyway, I am left with a whole empty window ledge that I am wondering what to fill it with.
Suggestions please?
#WFH
*aside from a plastic one with a cute face on the pot

To add a single example here (feel free to chime in with your own):
Problem: editing code is sometimes tedious because external APIs require boilerplate.
Solutions:
- Use LLM-generated code. Downsides: energy use, code theft, potential for legal liability, makes mistakes, etc. Upsides: popular among some peers, seems easy to use.
- Pick a better library (not always possible).
- Build internal functions to centralize boilerplate code, then use those (benefits: you get a better understanding of the external API, and a more-unit-testable internal code surface; probably less amortized effort).
- Develop a non-LLM system that actually reasons about code at something like the formal semantics level and suggests boilerplate fill-ins based on rules, while foregrounding which rules it's applying so you can see the logic behind the suggestions (needs research).
Obviously LLM use in coding goes beyond this single issue, but there are similar analyses for each potential use of LLMs in coding. I'm all cases there are:
1. Existing practical solutions that require more effort (or in many cases just seem to but are less-effort when amortized).
2. Near-term researchable solutions that directly address the problem and which would be much more desirable in the long term.
Thus in addition to disastrous LLM effects on the climate, on data laborers, and on the digital commons, they tend to suck us into cheap-seeming but ultimately costly design practices while also crowding out better long-term solutions. Next time someone suggests how useful LLMs are for some task, try asking yourself (or them) what an ideal solution for that task would look like, and whether LLM use moves us closer to or father from a world in which that solution exists.

My new strategy when people try to force me to fill out a #Google form or use Google scheduling or #Meet is I'll tell them I keep getting an error message, even if I'm not.

another pixelfed question for all the pixelfed admins:
for messages, you have inbox, sent and filtered.
I really don't understand how the "filtered" works. there are really (not spam) messages, even to some accounts I WROTE FIRST... @… - can you clarify? else I need to fill out another bug report on github

Walk This Way
Walk This Way
Walk This Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

BREAKING: Raiders Sign Former First Round Wide Receiver https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-phillip-dorsett-pete-carroll

BOOKCOREF: Coreference Resolution at Book Scale
Giuliano Martinelli, Tommaso Bonomo, Pere-Llu\'is Huguet Cabot, Roberto Navigli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12075

BOOKCOREF: Coreference Resolution at Book Scale
Coreference Resolution systems are typically evaluated on benchmarks containing small- to medium-scale documents. When it comes to evaluating long texts, however, existing benchmarks, such as LitBank, remain limited in length and do not adequately assess system capabilities at the book scale, i.e., when co-referring mentions span hundreds of thousands of tokens. To fill this gap, we first put forward a novel automatic pipeline that produces high-quality Coreference Resolution annotations on ful…

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study
Anders Giovanni M{\o}ller, Daniel M. Romero, David Jurgens, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14295

The Impact of Generative AI on Social Media: An Experimental Study
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly deployed across social media platforms, yet their implications for user behavior and experience remain understudied, particularly regarding two critical dimensions: (1) how AI tools affect the behaviors of content producers in a social media context, and (2) how content generated with AI assistance is perceived by users. To fill this gap, we conduct a controlled experiment with a representative sample of 680 U.S. participants in a r…

I know AI and neural processors fill/fix pixels when taking pictures with digital zoom, but it boggles my mind how many people do not appreciate the merits of closeup pictures (as in being up close or using optical zoom).
Or maybe I'm the one who is wrong. 🤔
Here's a closeup worth every bit:
#photography

Dallas Cowboys biggest surprise player could fill a massive need https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-biggest-surprise-player-could-fill-massive-need

I’ve been trying to “vibe code” a couple of things over the last few days, but I had to fall back on using my brain (like a sucker!).
I should keep some of this coding knowledge knocking around a little longer before cat videos and memes fill those parts of my brain.
My vibe must be off :P

from my link log —
That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years.
https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/
saved 2025-05-23 htt…

@… The chunks are rounded down and up, because the file boundaries don’t line up perfectly with cell boundaries. I make them as big as possible so they will often take up a whole cell when they actually only fill part of it.
I’d like to make this clearer, visually, but I haven’t had time yet.

RoundaboutHD: High-Resolution Real-World Urban Environment Benchmark for Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking
Yuqiang Lin, Sam Lockyer, Mingxuan Sui, Li Gan, Florian Stanek, Markus Zarbock, Wenbin Li, Adrian Evans, Nic Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08729

RoundaboutHD: High-Resolution Real-World Urban Environment Benchmark for Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking
The multi-camera vehicle tracking (MCVT) framework holds significant potential for smart city applications, including anomaly detection, traffic density estimation, and suspect vehicle tracking. However, current publicly available datasets exhibit limitations, such as overly simplistic scenarios, low-resolution footage, and insufficiently diverse conditions, creating a considerable gap between academic research and real-world scenario. To fill this gap, we introduce RoundaboutHD, a comprehensiv…

Volatiles
Kathleen Mandt, Oleksandra Ivanova, Olga Harrington Pinto, Nathan X. Roth, Darryl Z. Seligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13116 https://

Volatiles
Small bodies are the remnant building blocks from the time when the planets formed and migrated to their current positions. Their volatile composition and relative abundances serve as time capsules for the formation conditions in the protosolar nebula. By constraining the volatile composition of Centaurs, we can fill in important gaps in understanding the history of our solar system. We review here the state of knowledge for volatiles in small bodies, processes that influence volatile compositi…

‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/07/pod-living-nakagin-capsule-tower-tokyo-architectural-marvel-pent…

Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Robust and efficient multiple-unit switchback experimentation
Paul Missault, Lorenzo Masoero, Christian Delb\'e, Thomas Richardson, Guido Imbens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12654

Robust and efficient multiple-unit switchback experimentation
User-randomized A/B testing has emerged as the gold standard for online experimentation. However, when this kind of approach is not feasible due to legal, ethical or practical considerations, experimenters have to consider alternatives like item-randomization. Item-randomization is often met with skepticism due to its poor empirical performance. To fill this gap, in this paper we introduce a novel and rich class of experimental designs, "Regular Balanced Switchback Designs" (RBSDs). At their co…

Efficient Approximate Temporal Triangle Counting in Streaming with Predictions
Giorgio Venturin, Ilie Sarpe, Fabio Vandin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13173 …

Efficient Approximate Temporal Triangle Counting in Streaming with Predictions
Triangle counting is a fundamental and widely studied problem on static graphs, and recently on temporal graphs, where edges carry information on the timings of the associated events. Streaming processing and resource efficiency are crucial requirements for counting triangles in modern massive temporal graphs, with millions of nodes and up to billions of temporal edges. However, current exact and approximate algorithms are unable to handle large-scale temporal graphs. To fill such a gap, we int…

Language bubbles in online social networks
Alessandro Bellina, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Fabio Saracco, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto, Gabriele Di Bona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13068

Language bubbles in online social networks
Social media platforms have become essential spaces for public discourse. While political polarisation and limited communication across different groups are widely acknowledged, the connection between social network fragmentation and the language features and quality used by various communities has received insufficient attention. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the social structure and linguistic richness of the Italian debate on Twitter/X. We analyse tweets and retweets from Ita…

#PostDoc position in #GIScience at @…
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NEWS - Universität Salzburg
News and current events Z_GIS is active on various social media channels. Keep an eye on them to get important and interesting news about research, teaching and events Visit our social media: News 04.07.2025 - PostDoc opening at Z_GIS The Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS is seeking to fill the position of research and

Don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity
— at least not if government officials get their way.
Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda

The @… crew are doing a group order of meshtastic wireless devices.
We've selected the Wismesh Pocket v2 plus a small card sized sensor / buzzer. These connect up to 7 hops and we'll be installing 2 solar powered repeaters in Gastown & Mt Pleasant (as well as direct between any two devices)
Fill out the form …

Kim redet Klartext: Was sie am „Home“-Video wirklich fertig macht. Fill THE DARKK SHOW auf YouTube! Https://darkk.band/youtube
—
Live zeigt sie am Freitag, was sie für Kunst hält — kommt vorbei! Louder than Karl, Aachen. Eintritt kostenlos, Templergraben um 17:00 Uhr!

LLMs Caught in the Crossfire: Malware Requests and Jailbreak Challenges
Haoyang Li, Huan Gao, Zhiyuan Zhao, Zhiyu Lin, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10022

LLMs Caught in the Crossfire: Malware Requests and Jailbreak Challenges
The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has heightened concerns about their security, particularly their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks that leverage crafted prompts to generate malicious outputs. While prior research has been conducted on general security capabilities of LLMs, their specific susceptibility to jailbreak attacks in code generation remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we propose MalwareBench, a benchmark dataset containing 3,520 jailbreaking prompts f…

New Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers wants to lower the aesthethic value of our entire public realm, as a matter of policy, because he thinks that will make it look like he is controlling costs.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-price-of-ugliness/

The Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers announces his new policy to fill Ireland with ugly things. This is the Gist.

In the Air - Inside of the Window ✈️ 👩‍✈️
在空中 - 窗内 ✈️ 👩‍✈️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

The office tonight.
No edits—I love what the camera saw.
Was a funny gig: meant to be a public show in the park next door, but got moved in here due to weather. Totally different crowd than we expected, so we had to change up the set list, and with a fill-in bass player, too... he did great though.
It was fun having to focus on technical accuracy since the crowd was doing nothing but watching and listening (no dance floor, not an event unrelated to us)!

Finding Compiler Bugs through Cross-Language Code Generator and Differential Testing
Qiong Feng, Xiaotian Ma, Ziyuan Feng, Marat Akhin, Wei Song, Peng Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06584

Finding Compiler Bugs through Cross-Language Code Generator and Differential Testing
Compilers play a central role in translating high-level code into executable programs, making their correctness essential for ensuring code safety and reliability. While extensive research has focused on verifying the correctness of compilers for single-language compilation, the correctness of cross-language compilation - which involves the interaction between two languages and their respective compilers - remains largely unexplored. To fill this research gap, we propose CrossLangFuzzer, a nove…

Indie game devs who have made roguelikes, have them on Steam and want to be in the Steam Sale that @… is doing in October (you don't have to be a speaker at their conference to get your game in the sale!) - the form must be filled out by August 1, and it's here:

Call for Steam Event Participants 2025
Roguelike Celebration is an annual festival featuring the development, history, community, and play of roguelike games, procedural generation, and related topics. Our Steam event is an extension of the festival that seeks to highlight games from our community as well as games we think our community would like. ✨You don't have to be a speaker to be in the sale, and you don't have to have a game in the sale to be a speaker.✨ To submit your game for consideration, please fill out this form …

Burrow’s New Backup? Bengals Sign Ex-Falcons, Raiders Signal-Caller https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/21/burrows-new-backup-bengals-sign-ex-falcons-raiders-signal-caller/

I can confirm the it is indeed too warm.
'Unprecedented' alerts in France as blistering heat grips Europe
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7781e915o
> Dozens of the country's mainland regions are currently under the second-highest alert as…

'Unprecedented' alerts in France as blistering heat grips Europe
Dozens of the country's mainland regions are currently under the second-highest alert as the heatwave continues.

Millie #Baci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYilndGb0v8

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist gerade die Sonos-Radio-Station "The Lighthouse", über die Brian Eno jede Menge unveröffentlichte Tracks abspielen läßt, gratis (man braucht halt ein Sonos-Gerät dazu), und ich höre mich da nun etwas durch.
DJ Food hat das ein paar Monate lang gemacht übrigens, und mitgeschrieben (Stand 2023):
ht…

Brian Eno – The Lighthouse, what’s on it?
I’ve been compiling this, off and on, all year, while listening to the 340+ unreleased tracks on Brian Eno‘s Sonos HD radio station, The Lighthouse. If I had the phone nearby I’d check what’s playing, make a note of the track number and year and write a short description. I was intrigued to see how often tracks repeated (not very often), how long it would take me to hear all of them (over 6 months) and what the ratio of good to average to bad was. It became quite addictive as I’d fill…

The All-Quarter-Century team: Let's fill out a 53-man NFL roster, from Tom Brady to Devin Hester https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45042048/nfl-best-all-quarter-century-team-25-years-tom-brady-randy-moss-ray-le…

Ah, FFOTUS' judicial appointments reach the bottom of the barrel - even Bork was far better as a judge and more ethical.
"Ex-Trump defense lawyer Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, is picked to be federal judge"
https://ap…

Ex-Trump lawyer Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, is picked to be federal judge
President Donald Trump says he's nominating his former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to become a federal appeals court judge. As a high-ranking Justice Department official, Bove was behind the controversial move to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams as well as some of the agency’s most scrutinized actions since Trump’s return to the White House in January. Trump has picked Bove to fill a vacancy on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases fro…

Unveiling the Visual Rhetoric of Persuasive Cartography: A Case Study of the Design of Octopus Maps
Daocheng Lin, Yifan Wang, Yutong Yang, Xingyu Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11903

Unveiling the Visual Rhetoric of Persuasive Cartography: A Case Study of the Design of Octopus Maps
When designed deliberately, data visualizations can become powerful persuasive tools, influencing viewers' opinions, values, and actions. While researchers have begun studying this issue (e.g., to evaluate the effects of persuasive visualization), we argue that a fundamental mechanism of persuasion resides in rhetorical construction, a perspective inadequately addressed in current visualization research. To fill this gap, we present a focused analysis of octopus maps, a visual genre that has ma…

Peacock trying to impress a Peahen. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. June, 2025. #laarboretum #bird #birds

Electrodynamics in curved spacetime: Gravitationally-induced constitutive equations and the spacetime index of refraction
F. Masghatian, M. Esfandiar, M. Nouri-Zonoz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06475

Electrodynamics in curved spacetime: Gravitationally-induced constitutive equations and the spacetime index of refraction
Previous studies on spacetime index of refraction are mostly restricted to the static spacetimes. In this study we fill this gap by introducing the refractive index for full stationary spacetimes, employing three different approaches. These include applying Fermat's principle, employing the classical definition of refractive index, and using gravitationally-induced constitutive equations. These calculations are carried out in both threading and slicing spacetime decomposition formalisms, and th…

FAUST XXVI. The dust opacity spectral indices of protostellar envelopes bridge the gap between interstellar medium and disks
Luca Cacciapuoti, L. Testi, A. J. Maury, C. Chandler, N. Sakai, C. Ceccarelli, C. Codella, M. De Simone, L. Podio, G. Sabatini, E. Bianchi, E. Macias, A. Miotello, C. Toci, L. Loinard, D. Johnstone, H. B. Liu, Y. Aikawa, Y. Shirley, B. Svoboda, T. Sakai, T. Hirota, S. Viti, B. Lefloch, Y. Oya, S. Ohashi, S. Feng, F. Fontani, Y. Watanabe, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, Y. Zha…

FAUST XXVI. The dust opacity spectral indices of protostellar envelopes bridge the gap between interstellar medium and disks
The sub-millimetre dust opacity spectral index is a critical observable to constrain dust properties, such as the maximum grain size of an observed dust population. It has been widely measured at galactic scales and down to protoplanetary disks. However, because of observational and analytical challenges, quite a gap exists in measuring dust properties in the envelopes that feed newborn protostars and their disks. To fill this gap, we use sensitive dust continuum emission data at 1.2 and 3.1 mm…

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB

Sonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …

MMReason: An Open-Ended Multi-Modal Multi-Step Reasoning Benchmark for MLLMs Toward AGI
Huanjin Yao, Jiaxing Huang, Yawen Qiu, Michael K. Chen, Wenzheng Liu, Wei Zhang, Wenjie Zeng, Xikun Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Yuxin Song, Wenhao Wu, Dacheng Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23563

MMReason: An Open-Ended Multi-Modal Multi-Step Reasoning Benchmark for MLLMs Toward AGI
Reasoning plays a crucial role in advancing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) toward Artificial General Intelligence. However, existing MLLM benchmarks often fall short in precisely and comprehensively evaluating long-chain reasoning abilities from three key aspects: (1) lack of difficulty and diversity, (2) susceptibility to guessability and memorization, (3) inadequate assessment of intermediate reasoning steps. To fill this gap, we introduce MMReason, a new benchmark designed to preci…

SQL Notebook pattern fill
https://www.belle-nuit.com/sql-notebook/index.html?url=../site/files/pattern-fill.json

LRScheduler: A Layer-aware and Resource-adaptive Container Scheduler in Edge Computing
Zhiqing Tang, Wentao Peng, Jianxiong Guo, Jiong Lou, Hanshuai Cui, Tian Wang, Yuan Wu, Weijia Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03694

LRScheduler: A Layer-aware and Resource-adaptive Container Scheduler in Edge Computing
Lightweight containers provide an efficient approach for deploying computation-intensive applications in network edge. The layered storage structure of container images can further reduce the deployment cost and container startup time. Existing researches discuss layer sharing scheduling theoretically but with little attention paid to the practical implementation. To fill in this gap, we propose and implement a Layer-aware and Resource-adaptive container Scheduler (LRScheduler) in edge computin…

Active Learning via Heteroskedastic Rational Kriging
Shangkun Wang, V. Roshan Joseph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10952 https://arxiv.o…

Active Learning via Heteroskedastic Rational Kriging
Active learning methods for emulating complex computer models that rely on stationary Gaussian processes tend to produce design points that uniformly fill the entire experimental region, which can be wasteful for functions which vary only in small regions. In this article, we propose a new Gaussian process model that captures the heteroskedasticity of the function. Active learning using this new model can place design points in the more interesting regions of the response surface, and thus obta…

Why aren't I seeing every Democrat in congress on TV right now talking about this insane budget bill⁉️
It's Isaiah Martin
- and I think we need more Democrats with spines in Congress.
I know everyone is texting you right now, but my special election to fill a critical blue seat in Congress is⭐️ in just a few months - not a year and a half.
As a grassroots zero corporate dollar candidate, I need folks like you to come through for me.
It's our end o…

Isaiah Martin For Congress
​​Isaiah Martin is a proud Houston native, loyal brother and son, and a dedicated advocate. ​Isaiah’s upbringing instilled in him the values of service, resilience, and a deep commitment to his community. He believes in a Democratic Party that has a spine and fights back against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans as they try to tear down programs that lift up the most vulnerable.

On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set
Mohsen Dehghankar, Stavros Sintos, Abolfazl Asudeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08758 https://

On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set
Fairness has emerged as a formidable challenge in data-driven decisions. Many of the data problems, such as creating compact data summaries for approximate query processing, can be effectively tackled using concepts from computational geometry, such as $\varepsilon$-nets. However, these powerful tools have yet to be examined from the perspective of fairness. To fill this research gap, we add fairness to classical geometric approximation problems of $\varepsilon$-net, $\varepsilon$-sample, and g…

Reviving Cultural Heritage: A Novel Approach for Comprehensive Historical Document Restoration
Yuyi Zhang, Peirong Zhang, Zhenhua Yang, Pengyu Yan, Yongxin Shi, Pengwei Liu, Fengjun Guo, Lianwen Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05108

Reviving Cultural Heritage: A Novel Approach for Comprehensive Historical Document Restoration
Historical documents represent an invaluable cultural heritage, yet have undergone significant degradation over time through tears, water erosion, and oxidation. Existing Historical Document Restoration (HDR) methods primarily focus on single modality or limited-size restoration, failing to meet practical needs. To fill this gap, we present a full-page HDR dataset (FPHDR) and a novel automated HDR solution (AutoHDR). Specifically, FPHDR comprises 1,633 real and 6,543 synthetic images with chara…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13425 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Watermark under Fire: A Robustness Evaluation of LLM Watermarking
Various watermarking methods (``watermarkers'') have been proposed to identify LLM-generated texts; yet, due to the lack of unified evaluation platforms, many critical questions remain under-explored: i) What are the strengths/limitations of various watermarkers, especially their attack robustness? ii) How do various design choices impact their robustness? iii) How to optimally operate watermarkers in adversarial environments? To fill this gap, we systematize existing LLM watermarkers and water…

Bregman level proximal subdifferentials and new characterizations of Bregman proximal operators
Ziyuan Wang, Andreas Themelis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07333

Bregman level proximal subdifferentials and new characterizations of Bregman proximal operators
Classic subdifferentials in variational analysis may fail to fully represent the Bregman proximal operator in the absence of convexity. In this paper, we fill this gap by introducing the left and right \emph{Bregman level proximal subdifferentials} and investigate them systematically. Every Bregman proximal operator turns out to be the resolvent of a Bregman level proximal subdifferential under a standard range assumption, even without convexity. Aided by this pleasant feature, we establish new…

When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

MatBYIB: A Matlab-based code for Bayesian inference of extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary with arbitrary eccentricity
Gen-Liang Li, Shu-Jie Zhao, Huai-Ke Guo, Jing-Yu Su, Zhen-Heng Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05954

MatBYIB: A Matlab-based code for Bayesian inference of extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary with arbitrary eccentricity
Accurate parameter estimation(PE) of gravitational waves(GW) is essential for GW data analysis. In extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary(EMRI) systems, orbital eccentricity is a critical parameter for PE. However, current software for for PE of GW often neglects the direct estimation of orbital eccentricity. To fill this gap, we have developed the MatBYIB, a MATLAB-based software package for PE of GW with arbitrary eccentricity. The MatBYIB employs the Analytical Kludge (AK) waveform as a computat…

Poster: libdebug, Build Your Own Debugger for a Better (Hello) World
Gabriele Digregorio, Roberto Alessandro Bertolini, Francesco Panebianco, Mario Polino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02667

Poster: libdebug, Build Your Own Debugger for a Better (Hello) World
Automated debugging, long pursued in a variety of fields from software engineering to cybersecurity, requires a framework that offers the building blocks for a programmable debugging workflow. However, existing debuggers are primarily tailored for human interaction, and those designed for programmatic debugging focus on kernel space, resulting in limited functionality in userland. To fill this gap, we introduce libdebug, a Python library for programmatic debugging of userland binary executables…

Dolphins predicted to replace Jalen Ramsey with former Patriots, Raiders starter https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dolphins-predicted-replace-jalen-ramsey-patrio…

MalVol-25: A Diverse, Labelled and Detailed Volatile Memory Dataset for Malware Detection and Response Testing and Validation
Dipo Dunsin, Mohamed Chahine Ghanem, Eduardo Almeida Palmieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03993

MalVol-25: A Diverse, Labelled and Detailed Volatile Memory Dataset for Malware Detection and Response Testing and Validation
This paper addresses the critical need for high-quality malware datasets that support advanced analysis techniques, particularly machine learning and agentic AI frameworks. Existing datasets often lack diversity, comprehensive labelling, and the complexity necessary for effective machine learning and agent-based AI training. To fill this gap, we developed a systematic approach for generating a dataset that combines automated malware execution in controlled virtual environments with dynamic moni…

Raiders have big plans for versatile vet Jeremy Chinn https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45464485/las-vegas-raiders-defense-versatile-vet-jeremy-chinn

Sonnet 136 - CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store…

11) Which position is the most pressing need? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/11-which-position-is-the-most-pressing-need

Finished 1923 this week. Doesn't have the elŠn of Yellowstone/1883, esp when it comes to dialogue, but was a very solid ride nonetheless. My favorite thing is how they brought the era to life.
You don't have to have watched anything else to get it, but the other stories fill in context.
That said, I'd start with 1883, to this, to Yellowstone if I was new to it.
#film

1923
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

MatBYIB: A Matlab-based code for Bayesian inference of extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary with arbitrary eccentricity
Gen-Liang Li, Shu-Jie Zhao, Huai-Ke Guo, Jing-Yu Su, Zhen-Heng Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05954

MatBYIB: A Matlab-based code for Bayesian inference of extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary with arbitrary eccentricity
Accurate parameter estimation(PE) of gravitational waves(GW) is essential for GW data analysis. In extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary(EMRI) systems, orbital eccentricity is a critical parameter for PE. However, current software for for PE of GW often neglects the direct estimation of orbital eccentricity. To fill this gap, we have developed the MatBYIB, a MATLAB-based software package for PE of GW with arbitrary eccentricity. The MatBYIB employs the Analytical Kludge (AK) waveform as a computat…

11) Which position is the most pressing need? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/11-which-position-is-the-most-pressing-need

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

Poster: FedBlockParadox -- A Framework for Simulating and Securing Decentralized Federated Learning
Gabriele Digregorio, Francesco Bleggi, Federico Caroli, Michele Carminati, Stefano Zanero, Stefano Longari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02679

Poster: FedBlockParadox -- A Framework for Simulating and Securing Decentralized Federated Learning
A significant body of research in decentralized federated learning focuses on combining the privacy-preserving properties of federated learning with the resilience and transparency offered by blockchain-based systems. While these approaches are promising, they often lack flexible tools to evaluate system robustness under adversarial conditions. To fill this gap, we present FedBlockParadox, a modular framework for modeling and evaluating decentralized federated learning systems built on blockcha…

Cowboys named ideal landing spot for surprising pending free agent https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-named-ideal-landing-spot-for-surprising-pending-free-agent

Raiders Urged to Trade for 115-Tackle Linebacker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/las-vegas-raiders-urged-to-trade-for-115-tackle-linebacker/?adt_ei=[email]

Cowboys invested in $80 million player, but not much else at defensive tackle for 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/03/cowboys-dont-have-many-soli…

Raiders' LB Elandon Roberts Embracing OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pittsburgh-steelers-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-elandon-roberts