Tootfinder

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Die komplette Verrohung in immer größeren Teilen der Linken raubt mir echt die letzte Hoffnung.
Solidarität ist die Voraussetzung für unser Handeln, gerade wenn das mit Repression einher geht.
Für diese Leute bin ich jedoch der Feind.
Ihr seid links, ich bin emanzipatorisch.
We are not the same.
#ausgründen

Even as much of the internet is inaccessible right now, Metacurity appears unaffected. So check out today's issue for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to rectify cuts in 2025,
--Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack,
--Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced,
--Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments,
--A cr…

CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to redress cuts in 2025
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack, Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced, Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments, A crew of companies reject efforts to weaken encryption, 460k FTSE compromised credentials found, much more

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.IM. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.IM/new
[1/1]:
- Determination of the energy scale of cosmic ray measurements using the Auger Engineering Radio Array
Tim Huege (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

We desperately need to figure out how to flip this: how to lift up the creators of wonderful things, instead of rewarding whoever can acquire power over their creations.
I don’t think we know how to do this. There’s a vast spectrum of schemes for fixing this, ranging from capitalist versions of “intellectual property” to Marxist “just end capitalism” notions to various versions of “easy, society should just be different.” I find them all lacking, both in theory and in practice. This is a problem that’s existed for millennia, not decades, and I’m not convinced we have a clear solution.
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Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

Direct observation of the X-ray counterpart of the H{\alpha} filaments and of the sloshing spiral in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Adrien Picquenot, Fabio Acero, Valeria Olivares, Michela Negro, Gabriel W. Pratt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09559

Direct observation of the X-ray counterpart of the Hα filaments and of the sloshing spiral in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Deep Chandra observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster have allowed for the discovery of X-ray counterparts to the Hα filamentary structures and of a sloshing spiral. However, both components are extremely faint, and their study is largely hindered by the volume-filling hot intracluster medium (ICM). Using the Poisson General Morphological Component Analysis (pGMCA) algorithm, a blind source separation method adapted for Poissonian statistics, we were able to extract detailed, clean morpholog…

Mekke Okereke wrote:
Here's a challenge: find an adult Black man that has spent any significant time in New York as a teenager, that *hasn't* ever been detained by a cop with a gun.
This isn't rhetorical, and it's not a trick question.
It is possible to find!
A decent percent of Black men in New York have avoided this!
About 10%!

Love the impartial both-sided-ism of "even though the shutdown is the result of both Republicans and Democrats refusing to agree to a deal."
Who has refused to call the House back in session? Who has said "Don't negotiate"? Who has refused to fund #SNAP?

Love the impartial both-sided-ism of "even though the shutdown is the result of both Republicans and Democrats refusing to agree to a deal."
Who has refused to call the House back in session? Who has said "Don't negotiate"? Who has refused to fund #SNAP?