@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-26 17:50:42
Exclusive: White House wants deep cut in US funding for war crimes investigations, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/white-house-wants-major-cut-us-war-crimes-accountability-funding-sources-say-2025-06-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p91#a250626p91
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-05-29 00:43:46
I'm baffled that this guy is a respected analyst. Yeah, an infinite number of AI agents will spend their money on content from human creators, making those humans infinitely rich. I see no flaws in this model.
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-28 09:58:11
A Clockwork Quantum: Symmetry, Noise, and the Emergence of Quantum Order
Eric R. Bittner, Bhavay Tyagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19348 https://arxiv.org/p…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-22 01:05:05
The 'criminal alien' slander: A recent study of 150 years of US incarceration data found immigrant men were far less likely to be sent to prison than men born in the U.S. A 2020 study compared crime rates of undocumented immigrants vs. U.S.-born citizens: U.S.-born “are over 2x more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5x more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4x more likely to be arrested for property crimes.”
‘We Voted for Retribution’
https://www.aol.com/voted-retribution-200056494.html
@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-28 09:20:11
A non-iterative domain decomposition time integrator for linear wave equations
Tim Buchholz, Marlis Hochbruck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19379 https://arxi…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-25 10:57:58
Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.
@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-24 09:46:59
Mapping ground-based coronagraphic images to Helioprojective-Cartesian coordinate system by image registration
Feiyang Sha, Yu Liu, Lidong Xia, Yao Chen, Qing Zhou, Yangrui Chen, Chuyu Zhong, Xuefei Zhang, Tengfei Song, Mingzhe Sun, Haitang Li, Jacob Oloketuyi, Qiang Liu, Xinjian Wang, Qiwang Luo, Xiaobo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17670…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-07-24 09:29:53
"Le Monde – S’indigner de l’anéantissement de Gaza ne suffit plus"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/07/24/s-indigner-de-l-aneantissement-de-gaza-ne-suffit-plus_6623446_3232.html
@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-23 09:00:32
The THESAN project: environmental drivers of Local Group reionization
Yu Zhao (USC, Carnegie), Aaron Smith (UT Dallas), Rahul Kannan (York), Enrico Garaldi (IPMU), Hui Li (Tsinghua), Mark Vogelsberger (MIT), Andrew Benson (Carnegie), Lars Hernquist (Harvard)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16245
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-06-23 01:41:18
