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The Big Ugly Bill taken down by a republican from Texas.
https://substack.com/@demwinsmedia/note/c-131424537?r=8k45f&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Democratic Wins Media on Substack
BREAKING: Texas State Rep. James Talarico just took down Donald Trump’s Big, Ugly bill in a way we didn’t think was possible. This is incredible.

grep isn't what you think it means... - LaurieWired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZ81MbjKpU

ISMAF: Intrinsic-Social Modality Alignment and Fusion for Multimodal Rumor Detection
Zihao Yu, Xiang Li, Jing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24176 https:…

ISMAF: Intrinsic-Social Modality Alignment and Fusion for Multimodal Rumor Detection
The rapid dissemination of rumors on social media highlights the urgent need for automatic detection methods to safeguard societal trust and stability. While existing multimodal rumor detection models primarily emphasize capturing consistency between intrinsic modalities (e.g., news text and images), they often overlook the intricate interplay between intrinsic and social modalities. This limitation hampers the ability to fully capture nuanced relationships that are crucial for a comprehensive …

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
"He will need laws," said the Demon slyly.
"What! You, his appointed Enemy for all Time! You ask for the
right to make his laws?"
"Oh, no!" Satan replied…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17151 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Investigating Privacy Leakage in Dimensionality Reduction Methods via Reconstruction Attack
This study investigates privacy leakage in dimensionality reduction methods through a novel machine learning-based reconstruction attack. Employing an informed adversary threat model, we develop a neural network capable of reconstructing high-dimensional data from low-dimensional embeddings. We evaluate six popular dimensionality reduction techniques: principal component analysis (PCA), sparse random projection (SRP), multidimensional scaling (MDS), Isomap, $t$-distributed stochastic neighbor…

It's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though.
AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism.
https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=IJOnB4

Quasilinear Wave "Reflection" Due to Proton Heating by an Imbalanced Turbulent Cascade
Philip A. Isenberg, Bernard J. Vasquez, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00141

Quasilinear Wave "Reflection" Due to Proton Heating by an Imbalanced Turbulent Cascade
We investigate the quasilinear effects of the resonant wave-particle interaction under conditions of imbalanced turbulent heating in the collisionless coronal hole. We find that velocity-space transport of protons from the heated part of the distribution leads to strong wave growth in the minority (sunward) direction. In the present quasilinear analysis, the "reflected" waves grow to unphysical levels, indicating the necessity of including nonlinear processes. This mechanism is likely to be imp…

Revision of conservative lower bound on intergalactic magnetic field from Fermi and Cherenkov telescope observations of extreme blazars
J. Blunier, A. Neronov, D. Semikoz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22285

Revision of conservative lower bound on intergalactic magnetic field from Fermi and Cherenkov telescope observations of extreme blazars
Joint observations of extreme blazars with Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) have been previously used to derive lower bounds on intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). We update these previous bounds using a set of extreme blazars that are detected in the Very-High-Energy (VHE, photon energies above 100 GeV) band by both Fermi/LAT and IACTs. We measure IGMF-dependent suppression of secondary delayed gamma-ray flux from electron-positron pairs dep…

Jag upplever mer och mer att usla meta-analyser används för att få saker att framstå som etablerad vetenskap när stödet bakom påståendet egentligen är uselt. Under pandemin var det flera sidor som påstods sig ha i princip realtidsuppdaterade meta-analyser som var av den här typen och sen har det fortsatt bli vanligare, tycker jag.
The Research on Fluoride and IQ

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