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what's become of the bebey. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/114699125522454551

Software Fairness Testing in Practice
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Matheus de Morais Leca, Reydne Santos, Cleyton Magalhaes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17095 htt…

Software Fairness Testing in Practice
Software testing ensures that a system functions correctly, meets specified requirements, and maintains high quality. As artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technologies become integral to software systems, testing has evolved to address their unique complexities. A critical advancement in this space is fairness testing, which identifies and mitigates biases in AI applications to promote ethical and equitable outcomes. Despite extensive academic research on fairness testing, inclu…

this was common in NYC a decade ago, not sure what took it so long to come to SF. except it was a pet peeve of mine because I’d be looking for coffee shops open late and think I found one: turns out it’s a wine bar now
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-coffee-p…

How coffee and wine became San Francisco roommates
In San Francisco, wine bars and coffee pop-ups are doubling up, such as HI NRG and High Treason. Why hasn’t it been done more?

France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN #OpenSource Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations
https://unite.un.org/fr/news/france-be

BGM-HAN: A Hierarchical Attention Network for Accurate and Fair Decision Assessment on Semi-Structured Profiles
Junhua Liu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Kwan Hui Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17472

BGM-HAN: A Hierarchical Attention Network for Accurate and Fair Decision Assessment on Semi-Structured Profiles
Human decision-making in high-stakes domains often relies on expertise and heuristics, but is vulnerable to hard-to-detect cognitive biases that threaten fairness and long-term outcomes. This work presents a novel approach to enhancing complex decision-making workflows through the integration of hierarchical learning alongside various enhancements. Focusing on university admissions as a representative high-stakes domain, we propose BGM-HAN, an enhanced Byte-Pair Encoded, Gated Multi-head Hierar…

Kristi Noem's stupidity is an existential threat - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/t…

Kristi Noem's stupidity is an existential threat
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin FranklinThe Trump administration just refused to allow an Australian writer entry to America because he’d penned articles on his personal blog critical of the administration’s support for the ...

"Journalism screwed itself over by betting
on Meta and its profit-over-society peers.
Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
everyone is going bankrupt. The next bet
is on generative AI, with its inability to
distinguish truth from “hallucinations” –
fabrications that on the page become lies.
The Continent is an attempt to prove
journalism can be done differently.
Expect more of this in what our team
has decided to call our “serious era”.
We’re no longer a start-up. We’re going
to empower more people with quality
journalism. We’re going to help others
launch newspapers. We’re going to
stay sane. And we’re going to prove
that African excellence can set global
standards."
@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa

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-…

*nether*lands!
(no, not France)

Calamus 42 To the young man
A short poem but very hot, dripping with latent queer meaning. Or pederasty, if I'm being honest.
The poem is literally Whitman offering to teach a young man. "To absorb, to engraft, to develop". And "to help him become élève", a fancy French word for student, and the choice there certainly raises an eyebrow.
But then what qualifications does this student require? Here, in the negation:
If he be not silently selected by lovers, and do not silently select lovers
That's not the usual test scores and sports achievements! Instead Whitman seems to have a specific extracurricular activity in mind. (And note the "select" directly echoes the "picking me out" in the previous poem.)
This poem becomes particularly bold when understanding it as Whitman speaking directly to the reader. Perhaps a young man that Whitman can take under his wing.
I'm being a bit silly but this kind of mentorship has a long, sexy gay history.