“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …
Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…
Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…
Opinion | The Health Care Debate We Really Need - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/opinion/health-care-aca-cost-insurance.html ""...decades’ worth of research shows that, even though employers pay most of workers’ premiums, t…
Russia: Oh, no, we're in demographic decline! We should do something about it
Also #Russia : OK, let's go die by the hundreds of thousands because our dictator has a tiny dick.
https://en.zona.media/a…
SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/japan-tech-stocks-plun…
At last a sensible note on the bond problem that underpins the tax rises in #Budget2025.
"Slowing quantitative tightening, having the Bank of England absorb its own losses on its balance sheet and reducing the amount of interest paid out on reserves all offer ways for the government to recoup these losses and invest in public services and infrastructure. "
Budget tax rises to…
"Some have accused centralized [#Crypto] exchanges of minimizing their own losses at their customers’ expense by intentionally halting trading or withdrawals under the guise of 'technical difficulties'. Indeed, it is suspiciously common for supposedly highly sophisticated centralized exchanges to suddenly experience glitches or announce urgent 'maintenance' under far less volat…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Johann Strauss the younger
Donald Macleod explores the final years of Strauss’ life when he was lauded as a celebrity figure wherever he went, but also endured personal losses and difficulties.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kr5d
Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
Three fave craft brewers of my thirsty youth are no more , multiple #WestCoast #IPA makers shut #microbrew operations and pubs due to economics & some related labor issues ...
The losses to palette include iconic Anchor Chri…
Trajectory-Dependent Electronic Energy Losses in Ion Range Simulations
Glen P. Kiely, Bruno Semi\~ao, Evgeniia Ponomareva, Rafael Nu\~nez-Palacio, Unna Arpiainen, Andrea E. Sand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08422
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
"As trading activity spiked on [#Crypto] exchanges and prices whipsawed, multiple centralized platforms suffered glitches. Binance’s site went completely down at one point, and customers reported unexplained account freezes, unsuccessful trades, and automated protections like stop-losses failing to trigger"
Again, of course. People build crypto exchanges because they want to get ric…
Squirrels at War: Losses
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Maven woke me up by gradually increasing the light source. I hadn’t dreamed at all. No green ooze, no Ilyrians collapsing and crumpling up when the herbic…
Calibratable Disambiguation Loss for Multi-Instance Partial-Label Learning
Wei Tang, Yin-Fang Yang, Weijia Zhang, Min-Ling Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17788 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17788
arXiv:2512.17788v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-instance partial-label learning (MIPL) is a weakly supervised framework that extends the principles of multi-instance learning (MIL) and partial-label learning (PLL) to address the challenges of inexact supervision in both instance and label spaces. However, existing MIPL approaches often suffer from poor calibration, undermining classifier reliability. In this work, we propose a plug-and-play calibratable disambiguation loss (CDL) that simultaneously improves classification accuracy and calibration performance. The loss has two instantiations: the first one calibrates predictions based on probabilities from the candidate label set, while the second one integrates probabilities from both candidate and non-candidate label sets. The proposed CDL can be seamlessly incorporated into existing MIPL and PLL frameworks. We provide a theoretical analysis that establishes the lower bound and regularization properties of CDL, demonstrating its superiority over conventional disambiguation losses. Experimental results on benchmark and real-world datasets confirm that our CDL significantly enhances both classification and calibration performance.
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PricingLogic: Evaluating LLMs Reasoning on Complex Tourism Pricing Tasks
Yunuo Liu, Dawei Zhu, Zena Al-Khalili, Dai Cheng, Yanjun Chen, Dietrich Klakow, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12409
Massive job losses attributed to Fat Putin's tariffs?
Read about this & other events in "DUH" Magazine.
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The collapse of two US firms, First Brands and Tricolor,
has shone a light on private credit and its growing influence in the global economy.
The failures have led to ballooning losses at traditional banks,
and, coupled with worries about the health of US regional banks,
have raised concerns about weak lending standards and potential threats from an opaque corner of the so-called "shadow banking" sector
This losing stretch of 5 losses (all comps) in 6 games, featured 5 of those games being away and all 5 losses by a single goal.
Will being back at Anfield for 5 of the next 6 games help? The conventional wisdom is playing at home is nearly equivalent to a goal.
They will need the crowd as they run the gauntlet of Crystal Palace, Aston Villa, and Real Madrid. 😱
Then it's away to Manchester City. 😬
Not that the schedule is ever easy, but things get significantly e…
"The Coinwatch #crypto tracking platform accused market makers of 'desert[ing] their responsibility', and #blockchain analyst YQ alleged 'they executed a coordinated withdrawal at the optimal moment to minimize their losses while maximizing subsequent opportunities"
Of cour…
Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the
Treasury Secretary Bessent,
a former hedge fund manager,
is orchestrating a $20 billion lifeline to prop up the Argentine peso,
which has been declining in value.
The backstop is intended to support Argentina’s economy
and its president, Javier Milei.
On Friday, Mr. Bessent said the Treasury Department had intervened for at least a second time to buy pesos
At the center of his bet is that the currency of Argentina
— a debt-ridden country whose…
Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
As Trump’s excuses for GOP losses worsen
he calls for rigging the midterms in response
A Democratic operative explains why his schemes could still be a problem—and how Democrats should respond
https://newrepublic.com/article/202852…
It’s affordability, stupid:
Republicans pay price for Trump’s forgotten promise
Trump looks increasingly out of touch
and his disapproval rating is at an all-time high
– which largely explains Tuesday’s election results
https://www.
Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e9f5bcd6
Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, vs. $46.2M est., net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M a year ago; GEMI drops 5% after hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakin
A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections,
Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States
and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.
While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overturn Republican majorities in the House and Senat…
Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/ai-jobs-act-warner-hawley.html
⭐️German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles,
interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Wednesday,
after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate.
Unveiling a draft law, Dobrindt said police would be authorised “to take state-of-the-art technical action against drone threats,
for example with electromagnetic pulses, jamming, GPS interference, but also with physical means”.
…
Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/347173/balancer-exploited-128-million-across…
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