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AI won’t save PDF from itself. PDFs are largely inaccessible, proprietary, and a nightmare for data extraction (ever tried copy-pasting a two-column doc?). Mistral’s new tool still struggles to convert them cleanly; imagine misreading a PDF drug chart and prescribing a 500mg overdose instead of 50mg. Science is about reusing knowledge, so it's high time we used formats that make it easy to extract data—rather than consign it to a tomb

The Rule of Idiots:
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
by Chris Hedges
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots

The Rule of Idiots
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1). In the May election round they gained 677 more councillors, took control of 8 councils, landed a regional Mayor and gained another MP, in a formerly safe Labour seat.

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

https://canadianunderwriter.ca/news/risk/lost-rcmp-memory-key-with-informant-details-was-offered-for-sale-by-criminals-report/
“The RCMP determined that the unencrypted USB storage device contained the…

Lost RCMP memory key with informant details was offered for sale by criminals: report
Only some of the documents on the device were password protected and that the device itself was not encrypted nor password protected.

Sonnet 119 - CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil s…

For several days we started having problems with our light, apparently our current box gave up after having half of it's cables just play around without any fixation. Our plus was holding itself by miracle and our zero bas burnt to a crisp. For several years we were losing a ton of current into the ground:(

Your Agent Can Defend Itself against Backdoor Attacks
Li Changjiang, Liang Jiacheng, Cao Bochuan, Chen Jinghui, Wang Ting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08336 …

Your Agent Can Defend Itself against Backdoor Attacks
Despite their growing adoption across domains, large language model (LLM)-powered agents face significant security risks from backdoor attacks during training and fine-tuning. These compromised agents can subsequently be manipulated to execute malicious operations when presented with specific triggers in their inputs or environments. To address this pressing risk, we present ReAgent, a novel defense against a range of backdoor attacks on LLM-based agents. Intuitively, backdoor attacks often res…

Growing a Modular Framework for Modal Systems- HOLMS: a HOL Light Library
Antonella Bilotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10048 https://…

Growing a Modular Framework for Modal Systems- HOLMS: a HOL Light Library
The present dissertation introduces the research project on HOLMS (\textbf{HOL} Light Library for \textbf{M}odal \textbf{S}ystems), a growing modular framework for modal reasoning within the HOL Light proof assistant. To provide an accessible introduction to the library, the fundamentals of modal logic are outlined first, followed by a concise manual for the proof assistant itself. The core contribution of this work on HOLMS is the development of a unified and modular strategy for proving adequ…

lol this project can go fuck itself
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
: Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy

Our new statement on the rise of #POX (party of xenophobes and fascists), the threat they pose, reasons for their success, strategies, good and bad, for countering them.
Steady State Manchester | For local prosperity, justice & ecological safety

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…