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"The fragility of Africa’s coasts is further exacerbated by the deteriorating condition of its marine ecosystems... under mounting pressure from both climate anthropogenic stressors, including unregulated development, dam-induced sediment trap habitat degradation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02965-z

Topology and Fragility of European High-Voltage Networks: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
B\'alint Hartmann, Michelle T. Cirunay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12900 https:…

Topology and Fragility of European High-Voltage Networks: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Reliable electricity supply depends on the seamless operation of high-voltage grid infrastructure spanning both transmission and sub-transmission levels. Beneath this apparent uniformity lies a striking structural diversity, which leaves a clear imprint on system vulnerability. In this paper, we present harmonized topological models of the high-voltage grids of 15 European countries, integrating all elements at voltage levels above 110 kV. Topological analysis of these networks reveals a simple…

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

A Survey on Parallel Reasoning
Ziqi Wang, Boye Niu, Zipeng Gao, Zhi Zheng, Tong Xu, Linghui Meng, Zhongli Li, Jing Liu, Yilong Chen, Chen Zhu, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12164

A Survey on Parallel Reasoning
With the increasing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), parallel reasoning has emerged as a new inference paradigm that enhances reasoning robustness by concurrently exploring multiple lines of thought before converging on a final answer. It has become a significant trend to explore parallel reasoning to overcome the fragility of standard sequential methods and improve practical performance. In this paper, we aim to survey and summarize the progress and challenges of parallel reasonin…

This is mesmerizing.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l6arnocvhn2zrll2gn6xlxn2/post/3m33bzfkh722u

Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net)
Courtney Mattison, Gyre I, stoneware and porcelain, 2023. "references the fragility, diversity, and resilience of marine ecosystems" #sciart

Breakdown of Non-Bloch Bulk-Boundary Correspondence and Emergent Topology in Floquet Non-Hermitian Systems
Hong Wu, Xue-Min Yang, Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09193 https:…

Breakdown of Non-Bloch Bulk-Boundary Correspondence and Emergent Topology in Floquet Non-Hermitian Systems
Topological edge states in gaps of non-Hermitian systems are robust due to topological protection. Using the non-Hermitian Floquet Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, we show that this robustness can break down: edge states may be suppressed by infinitesimal perturbations that preserve sublattice symmetry. We identify this fragility to the instability of the quasienergy spectrum in finite-size systems, leading to a breakdown of the non-Bloch bulk-boundary correspondence defined on the generalized Brill…

Replaced article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Robust a posteriori estimation of probit-lognormal seismic fragility curves via sequential design...
Antoine Van Biesbroeck, Cl\'ement Gauchy, Cyril Feau, Josselin Garnier

Climate change isn't gender-neutral. The 2023/2024 El Niño drought in Southern Africa didn't just destroy crops—it fueled gender-based violence and put women environmental defenders at risk.
COP30's new Belém Gender Action Plan tackles this head-on with gender-responsive budgeting and support for climate action that protects women.

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence - African Climate Wire
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.

On The Fragility of Benchmark Contamination Detection in Reasoning Models
Han Wang, Haoyu Li, Brian Ko, Huan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02386 https://

On The Fragility of Benchmark Contamination Detection in Reasoning Models
Leaderboards for LRMs have turned evaluation into a competition, incentivizing developers to optimize directly on benchmark suites. A shortcut to achieving higher rankings is to incorporate evaluation benchmarks into the training data, thereby yielding inflated performance, known as benchmark contamination. Surprisingly, our studies find that evading contamination detections for LRMs is alarmingly easy. We focus on the two scenarios where contamination may occur in practice: (I) when the base m…

ICL Optimized Fragility
Serena Gomez Wannaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00300 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00300

ICL Optimized Fragility
ICL guides are known to improve task-specific performance, but their impact on cross-domain cognitive abilities remains unexplored. This study examines how ICL guides affect reasoning across different knowledge domains using six variants of the GPT-OSS:20b model: one baseline model and five ICL configurations (simple, chain-of-thought, random, appended text, and symbolic language). The models were subjected to 840 tests spanning general knowledge questions, logic riddles, and a mathematical oly…

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/

Turbulence and dust fragility in protoplanetary discs
Simin Tong, Richard Alexander, Giovanni Rosotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24818 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Turbulence and dust fragility in protoplanetary discs
Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust growth and fragmentation, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every stage. Previous studies typically vary one of them while fixing the other, failing to provide a complete picture. Here, we use analytical models and numerical dust evolution models DustPy to study the combinations of gas turbulence and dust fragilit…

Fragility Analysis of Data-Driven Feedback Gains
Yongzhang Li, Amir Shakouri, M. Kanat Camlibel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00717 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Fragility Analysis of Data-Driven Feedback Gains
For linear time-invariant systems, input-state data collected during an open-loop experiment can remedy the lack of knowledge of system parameters. However, such data do not contain information about other system uncertainties such as feedback perturbations. In this paper, we study the effect of additive perturbations on control parameters in a data-based setting. To this end, we parameterize the set of quadratically stabilizing feedback gains obtained from noisy input-state data. We study the …

October 23rd, 1989, 36 years ago, on #climate, we got the POV from outside. 🚀🌍👀
Atlantis Commander Donald Williams said:
“The world as we know it is a very fragile place.”
And mission specialist Ellen Baker 👩‍🚀 on the ozone layer:
“Our world is a beautiful place, and we do need to take care of it. You get an appreciation of how thin the protective layer is above the planet …

Shuttle to Land 3 Hours Earlier Because of Winds
The five astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis prepared Sunday to return to a planet they now view with increased awareness of its fragility, planning to touch down today at Edwards Air Force Base at 9:33 a.m., three hours earlier than planned.

from my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…

🪞 What we've learned about narcissism over the past 30 years
https://theconversation.com/what-weve-learned-about-narcissism-over-the-past-30-years-258505

What we’ve learned about narcissism over the past 30 years
Narcissism is a picture that includes insecurity, emotional sensitivity and surprising fragility.

Survey of AI-Powered Approaches for Osteoporosis Diagnosis in Medical Imaging
Abdul Rahman, Bumshik Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00061 https://arxiv.org/…

Survey of AI-Powered Approaches for Osteoporosis Diagnosis in Medical Imaging
Osteoporosis silently erodes skeletal integrity worldwide; however, early detection through imaging can prevent most fragility fractures. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods now mine routine Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA), X-ray, Computed Tomography (CT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans for subtle, clinically actionable markers, but the literature is fragmented. This survey unifies the field through a tri-axial framework that couples imaging modalities with clinical tasks an…

MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases
Ziang Luo, Kangan Qian, Jiahua Wang, Yuechen Luo, Jinyu Miao, Zheng Fu, Yunlong Wang, Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Yifei Hu, Yuhao Yang, Hao Ye, Mengmeng Yang, Xiaojian Dong, Kun Jiang, Diange Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20843

MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases
Vision-Language Models(VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential for end-to-end autonomous driving, yet a substantial gap remains between their current capabilities and the reliability necessary for real-world deployment. A critical challenge is their fragility, characterized by hallucinations and poor generalization in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce MTRDrive, a novel framework that integrates procedural driving experiences with a dynamic toolkit to en…

Forecasting Liquidity Withdraw with Machine Learning Models
Haochuan (Kevin), Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22985

Forecasting Liquidity Withdraw with Machine Learning Models
Liquidity withdrawal is a critical indicator of market fragility. In this project, I test a framework for forecasting liquidity withdrawal at the individual-stock level, ranging from less liquid stocks to highly liquid large-cap tickers, and evaluate the relative performance of competing model classes in predicting short-horizon order book stress. We introduce the Liquidity Withdrawal Index (LWI) -- defined as the ratio of order cancellations to the sum of standing depth and new additions at th…

Cognitive Load Limits in Large Language Models: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Reasoning
Sai Teja Reddy Adapala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19517 https://arxiv.org/…

Cognitive Load Limits in Large Language Models: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Reasoning
The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has exposed a critical gap between their performance on static benchmarks and their fragility in dynamic, information-rich environments. While models excel at isolated tasks, the computational limits that govern their reasoning under cognitive load remain poorly understood. In this work, we introduce a formal theory of computational cognitive load, positing that extraneous, task-irrelevant information (Context Saturation) and interference from task-sw…

Cognitive Load Limits in Large Language Models: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Reasoning
Sai Teja Reddy Adapala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19517 https://arxiv.org/…

Cognitive Load Limits in Large Language Models: Benchmarking Multi-Hop Reasoning
The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has exposed a critical gap between their performance on static benchmarks and their fragility in dynamic, information-rich environments. While models excel at isolated tasks, the computational limits that govern their reasoning under cognitive load remain poorly understood. In this work, we introduce a formal theory of computational cognitive load, positing that extraneous, task-irrelevant information (Context Saturation) and interference from task-sw…