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Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)

FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decision
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta has illegally maintained a monopoly in social networking through anticompetitive conduct. The FTC says Meta bought the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta prevailed over the existential challenge to its business that could have forced the…

De måger der bor heromkring ved Feggesund må tælle blandt de fornemmeste i hele Kongeriget: de æder ikke andet end Ÿsters for tiden!

ProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
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Shit, hvor er jeg ved at være lidt træt af dem her. De fleste er ikke engang en smule relevante men i kategorien “Vi får snart en pakke til dig” og om man ikke vil have gjort noget andet ved den end at få leveret til dŸren. Der kommer selvfŸlgelig også notifikationer fra appen udover at jeg kunne styre det hele derfra hvis jeg ville. Det burde være forbudt at udsende automatiske mails, som ikke kan frameldes.

Great post about the Project Hail Mary movie:
"Competent people overcome their differences to work together—that’s really the perfect movie for 2026.
Competency, science, countries working together toward a vital common goal, get to know the stranger so as not to be afraid of it anymore...
It's an antidote."
https://bsky.app/profile/thespaceshipper.com/post/3mhq46qvbcd2q

I have, to date, only read one Discworld book.
I believe my antidote to 2026 might be reading the rest of them…

Great interview. The performance of Walt Whitman's [section of] "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is at 18:10 (I hope you don't want to miss it).
Action Is The Antidote To Doomscrolling Anxiety - Edward Norton Extended Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEMaPOOrU8

Det er en mærkelig fornemmelse når livet kŸrer ad to spor på én gang. Verden er i kaos, men mit eget lille liv fungerer så godt at det er svært at være andet end lykkelig over det. Så mit hovede er både fyldt af alle de vanvittige ting der foregår ude i verden, og af taknemmelighed over dagligdagen. Det er lige til at blive svimmel af.

Over 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday; seven states joined the DOJ to settle with the ticketing giant (Larry Neumeister/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/livenation-antit…

Antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster to resume in New York
More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday after negotiations this week failed to result in many states joining a tentative settlement reached by the Justice Department. Federal Judge Arun Subramanian said at a hearing in Manhattan on Friday that the states had dropped their request to restart the trial in coming weeks with a different jury. Lawyers told the judge that Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and S…

Until `interpolate-size` has more support, you may need script to animate `<details>`.
Until then, making the disclosed content a _peer_ to `<details>` is probably a bad idea.
Strapping on `aria-describedby`, `definition`, and `term` is just comedy.
https://adria…

CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible
Usually. I originally titled this InacCSS-onlyible. I even made this typographically, er, distinct image. Then I realized it was silly and will instead use the neologism in a talk so I can hear the groans IRL. Interactive widgets powered with only CSS are relatively common as people are playing with…