Tootfinder

This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.

Belachelijke framing van #nieuwsuur … “links is kleiner dan ooit”.
Toen D66 de vorige keer fors verloor hoorden ze bij het ‘verliezende links’. Nu ze winnen ineens niet meer?

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

This is how Democrats need to respond to questions from slanted journalists framing the govt shutdown as anything but a cruel matter caused by Republicans.
The field of journalism has lost its integrity.
#democrats #governmentshutdown

Information Design With Large Language Models
Paul Duetting, Safwan Hossain, Tao Lin, Renato Paes Leme, Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath, Haifeng Xu, Song Zuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25565

Information Design With Large Language Models
Information design is typically studied through the lens of Bayesian signaling, where signals shape beliefs based on their correlation with the true state of the world. However, Behavioral Economics and Psychology emphasize that human decision-making is more complex and can depend on how information is framed. This paper formalizes a language-based notion of framing and bridges this to the popular Bayesian-persuasion model. We model framing as a possibly non-Bayesian, linguistic way to influenc…

TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training
Xingyu Chen, Yue Chen, Yuliang Xiu, Andreas Geiger, Anpei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26645 https://arxi…

TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training
Modern Recurrent Neural Networks have become a competitive architecture for 3D reconstruction due to their linear-time complexity. However, their performance degrades significantly when applied beyond the training context length, revealing limited length generalization. In this work, we revisit the 3D reconstruction foundation models from a Test-Time Training perspective, framing their designs as an online learning problem. Building on this perspective, we leverage the alignment confidence betw…

De NOS blijft maar hameren dat ‘het linkse blok kleiner is geworden’.
Om dat te kunnen beweren wordt vandaag voor het allereerst in de historie D66 niet tot het linkse blok gerekend.
#verkiezingsuitslag #framing

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…

Just watching 9 bodies in a Mexican Morgue and it's basically like someone wrote a framing narrative for a game of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)

Mafia (party game) - Wikipedia

Starting to set up the framing of the north wall of the new workshop. Two interesting problems here:
1. Am I going to want a large door in this wall? I think I can't have one, because I want either the east or the west wall to be removable to allow more light and space in summer; but I really need to think about this!
2. The shape of the foundation is very squint. Consequently, although the north and south walls will be parallel, the east and west won't. I have some int…

None of the above is even proper neuroscience or psychology. It’s just a framing of the question, a way to avoid ridiculous assumptions and broken approaches, a way to avoid hurting people.
Variation is normal. Let’s expect it, design for it, work •with• it — in others, and in ourselves.
8/

One of my wife's friends is throwing herself a 50th birthday party in the style of "Prom". So, enjoy this picture of my wife and I all dressed to the nines.

pitting the hardcore christian-leaning conservatives against the alpha male-leaning conservatives by framing christmas as something for weak needy pussies who will grow up to be welfare queens from receiving gifts as a child

Man I hate the new language for a task one doesn't want to do — "aversive”.
Primary reason is that it externalizes the problem. It's fixed mindset framing, that something _else_ has to change to make the situation better, that it's the task's fault for being aversive, instead of our own for not working on the aversion to the needed task.
We have a bad habit lately of attributing relational traits to the party in a relationship, rather than to the relationship itself and it weakens our thinking about things. Noticing this pattern really changes how you think, because you can start attributing things better and noticing the contexts — and contexts are often things that can be changed!

«LLMs are copyright removal devices - copy open source (or proprietary!) data into it, and you get copyright free data on the other side that you are free to plagiarize into newly copyrighted works. While this process robs all copyright owners, it is particularly damaging to people involved in sharing communities, since many are particpating not for money but for the love of the game - what librarian Fobazi Ettarh calls “vocational awe”.»
Really good framing by @…
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html

"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…

S.F. upzoning plan heads to committee for final amendments
At Monday's meeting, amendments will range from excluding historical buildings to increasing the percentage of larger, family-friendly units.

"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…

S.F. upzoning plan heads to committee for final amendments
At Monday's meeting, amendments will range from excluding historical buildings to increasing the percentage of larger, family-friendly units.

Kicking off #a11yTOConf / #a11yTO day one with an impressive television display in the CBC atrium.
This year’s host is the puppet!

An invitation a dutch scientist (Cas Mudde) received from the BBC. Quite sick....framing a discussion like this...
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/casmudde.bsky.social/post/3m7zngddjtk2e

A lot of conversations about neurodivergence take the form of the first image below. I’m arguing to adopt the framing of the second image instead (except 100- or 1000-dimensional instead of 2-dimensional).
We’ve identified a few clusterings in a space of extraordinary and beautiful variation, and given those clusterings names. How useful those names are! How little they capture, even so! How much variation remains unnamed! How much variation must exist within every human being!
12/

it was a great day: the no kings rally was inspiring, the wolverines triumphed, PSG came back from down 3–1 to pull out a draw (yesterday, but watched today), and j.b. threw a terrific 40th fête d'anniversaire. perfect conditions for a #LateNightDanceParty!
#nowplaying

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

AI model builder Eric Hartford unpacks the results of the September 25, 2025 NIST report on DeepSeek ("Evaluation of DeepSeek AI Models") and reports that the lack of evidence of malicious code, backdoors or data exfiltration, should lead to questions about the report's motives, framing and implications.
"The Demonization of DeepSeek -
How NIST Turned Open Science into a Security Scare"

In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are "refounding", as they scramble to add new AI features (Lora Kelley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/business/refounding-startups-ai.html…

Don’t Call It a Pivot. These Executives Are ‘Refounding’ Their Start-Ups.
In the age of artificial intelligence, some company leaders are framing new business lines as radical reboots.

Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
Robin Courant, Xi Wang, David Loiseaux, Marc Christie, Vicky Kalogeiton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05097

Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
Treating human motion and camera trajectory generation separately overlooks a core principle of cinematography: the tight interplay between actor performance and camera work in the screen space. In this paper, we are the first to cast this task as a text-conditioned joint generation, aiming to maintain consistent on-screen framing while producing two heterogeneous, yet intrinsically linked, modalities: human motion and camera trajectories. We propose a simple, model-agnostic framework that enfo…

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

Natürlich ist das Framing von @… unterirdisch. Aber die Nachricht, dass Kevin Kühnert künftig bei #Finanzwende mitarbeitet und sich um alternative #Finanzpolitik

Ex-SPD-Generalsekretär Kühnert wird Lobbyist
Aus der Politik in den Lobbyismus: Der ehemalige SPD-Generalsekretär Kühnert hat einen neuen Job. Bei einer Nichtregierungsorganisation wird er sich künftig um Finanzpolitik und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit kümmern.

Heyo, I want to share this #photo from a walk in June near #Ebersberg. It's been quite a nice walk, yet no SUPER photos. But maybe enough to bring a smile on your face :)

The framing of digital pollution does mirror environmental pollution, e.g. in rivers and streams in many ways: In those, pollution can be coming from concentrated "point-sources" as well from more diffuse "non-point" sources. Including the problem of "too much of a good thing", where an excess of matter creates an eutrophication of an ecosystem that ultimately asphyxiates it.
Beyond being an apt metaphor, can we learn something from environmental science for online communities?
🧵 3/X

Metropolitana V 🍎
城 V 🍎
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Das Framing "wer gegen rechts demonstriert, muss links sein" impliziert doch eigentlich schon, dass die vermeintliche Mitte offensichtlich niemals etwas gegen rechts unternehmen würde, oder?

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
TEAGUE: [V.O.] No response... circuit three...
[Teague is still trying to operate the device. The hatch starts to slide open]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/523 B7B6

SummDiff: Generative Modeling of Video Summarization with Diffusion
Kwanseok Kim, Jaehoon Hahm, Sumin Kim, Jinhwan Sul, Byunghak Kim, Joonseok Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08458

SummDiff: Generative Modeling of Video Summarization with Diffusion
Video summarization is a task of shortening a video by choosing a subset of frames while preserving its essential moments. Despite the innate subjectivity of the task, previous works have deterministically regressed to an averaged frame score over multiple raters, ignoring the inherent subjectivity of what constitutes a good summary. We propose a novel problem formulation by framing video summarization as a conditional generation task, allowing a model to learn the distribution of good summarie…

"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @… 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.

This framing doesn’t even touch the crucial forces of ego and identity formation and craving for belonging that are the bedrock of fascist movements like MAGA. Others are thinking productively about that, and it’s at least as important here!
That belief-as-identity phenomenon is also time-based. Somebody posted about those Young Republicans and their Telegram messages grooming and being groomed for fascism, and that’s right: it’s not just the existence of the fascist space; it’s the sustained process of drawing people in over time.
5/

ZeroGR: A Generalizable and Scalable Framework for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval
Weiwei Sun, Keyi Kong, Xinyu Ma, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke, Zhaochun Ren, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10419

ZeroGR: A Generalizable and Scalable Framework for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval
Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates information retrieval (IR) by framing it as the generation of document identifiers (docids), thereby enabling an end-to-end optimization and seamless integration with generative language models (LMs). Despite notable progress under supervised training, GR still struggles to generalize to zero-shot IR scenarios, which are prevalent in real-world applications. To tackle this challenge, we propose \textsc{ZeroGR}, a zero-shot generative retrieval framework th…

Probing Social Identity Bias in Chinese LLMs with Gendered Pronouns and Social Groups
Geng Liu, Feng Li, Junjie Mu, Mengxiao Zhu, Francesco Pierri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06974

Probing Social Identity Bias in Chinese LLMs with Gendered Pronouns and Social Groups
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in user-facing applications, raising concerns about their potential to reflect and amplify social biases. We investigate social identity framing in Chinese LLMs using Mandarin-specific prompts across ten representative Chinese LLMs, evaluating responses to ingroup ("We") and outgroup ("They") framings, and extending the setting to 240 social groups salient in the Chinese context. To complement controlled experiments, we further analyze Chin…

This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…

Reflective pause in Cirque de Troumouse, Pyrenees (just too grand to photograph)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Colored Petri Nets are Lax Double Functors
Jade Master, Joe Moeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01946 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01946

Colored Petri Nets are Lax Double Functors
We give a characterization of colored Petri nets as lax double functors. Framing colored Petri nets in terms of category theory allows for canonical definitions of various well-known constructions on colored Petri nets. In particular, we show how morphisms of colored Petri nets may be understood as natural transformations. A result from folklore, which we sketch in the appendix, shows that lax double functors are equivalent to functors with codomain their former domain. We use this result to ch…

#Apple has removed all the colors from the framing of browsers (Safari, Firefox...) even without going to iOS26. How can I get decent color cues to have applications look different instead of every single iOS window having the exact same look?
Jeez why do companies so often make things much worse - just change so they can say they changed?
Standardized menus... make sense. Removing all …

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Naveenkumar G Venkataswamy, Yu Liu, Soumyabrata Dey, Stephanie Schuckers, Masudul H Imtiaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06170

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Smartphone-based iris recognition in the visible spectrum (VIS) remains difficult due to illumination variability, pigmentation differences, and the absence of standardized capture controls. This work presents a compact end-to-end pipeline that enforces ISO/IEC 29794-6 quality compliance at acquisition and demonstrates that accurate VIS iris recognition is feasible on commodity devices. Using a custom Android application performing real-time framing, sharpness evaluation, and feedback, we intro…

Musing on this post from @…: “Shared reality” is a direly important idea right now, but agreed: it’s missing something, hiding something.
A more useful framing might involve •time•. How long does it take for an idea to meet empirical challenge? What is the convergence time for differing understandings? What is the FA-to-FO latency?
1/ https://werd.social/@ben/115384162920438859

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/u6FwVoN
Seeking Book Reviewers for Women and Social Movements in the United States Erica Hayden 10/06/2025 -…
via Input 4 RELCFP

A freely available masterclass! 👇

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Isabella Gra{\ss}l, Benedikt Fein, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11064 https://arx…

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Gender stereotypes in introductory programming courses often go unnoticed, yet they can negatively influence young learners' interest and learning, particularly under-represented groups such as girls. Popular tutorials on block-based programming with Scratch may unintentionally reinforce biases through character choices, narrative framing, or activity types. Educators currently lack support in identifying and addressing such bias. With large language models~(LLMs) increasingly used to generate …

Metropolitana II🔶
城 II🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: If they've any left.
ATLAN: Oh yes, they have, but not for long. How soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
PLAXTON: Napier. [Napier exits.]
ATLAN: Well?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/304 B7B5

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Eitan Klinger, Zihao Huang, Tran Minh Nguyen, Emma Jayeon Park, Yige Chen, Yang Gu, Qingyu Gao, Siliang Liu, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06749

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Evaluating grammatical error correction requires metrics that reflect the diversity of valid human corrections rather than privileging a single reference. Existing frameworks, largely edit-based and English-centric, rely on rigid alignments between system and reference edits, limiting their applicability in multilingual and generative settings. This paper introduces a formal framework for \textit{fluency-based multi-reference evaluation}, framing $n$-gram similarity as an aggregation problem ov…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/blmqAxR
Seeking Book Reviewers for Women and Social Movements in the United States Erica Hayden 10/06/2025 -…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 🕰️
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 🕰️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Xuan Xu, Haolun Li, Zhongliang Yang, Beilin Chu, Jia Song, Moxuan Xu, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03174

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Traditional topic models such as neural topic models rely on inference and generation networks to learn latent topic distributions. This paper explores a new paradigm for topic modeling in the era of large language models, framing TM as a long-form generation task whose definition is updated in this paradigm. We propose a simple but practical approach to implement LLM-based topic model tasks out of the box (sample a data subset, generate topics and representative text with our prompt, text assi…

Moody Urbanity - UP 🆙
情绪化城市 - 上面 🆙
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/Q1rYgx5
Call for Abstracts: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt - SCS San Francisco…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/4]:
- Retain or Reframe? A Computational Framework for the Analysis of Framing in News Articles and Rea...
Matteo Guida, Yulia Otmakhova, Eduard Hovy, Lea Frermann

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/8nWkz7a
Call for Abstracts: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt - SCS San Francisco…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127143/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/or3ZsTX
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/DWzu19j
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/91z2gvK
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

CFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/86AaxZI
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

CFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127238/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

CFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/7u6kcvz
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

CFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/7u6kcvz
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127235/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/kbriQ7u
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP