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Missing Link: Technikfolgenabschätzung trifft KI-Romantik
KI zwischen Illusion und Erkenntnis: Ein Gespräch über Bewusstsein, Emotion und das neue Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine.
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“In a recent meeting where BBC studio executives again voiced problems, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices. I chose the latter. It broke my heart.”
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Told you folks he’s a good egg :)

I decided to support something for which the only support mechanism is "buymeacoffee" with a monthly donation — so I created a login at buymeacoffee, and now it won't let me go any further without creating a page with my photo, name, link, and a short essay to "Explain how contributions can make a difference in your work" and just no! All I want to do is set up a small monthly donation and be able to manage that in the future!
This isn't hard on liberapay or patreon or…

Période : toute la journée.
Dates : le samedi 15 et dimanche 16 novembre.
Le trafic est interrompu entre Paris Saint-Lazare <> Maisons-Laffitte.
De plus, moins de trains entre Paris Saint-Lazare <> Nanterre Université.
Les clients, souhaitant rejoindre ou quitter les gares de Houilles Carrières sur Seine, Sartrouville et Maisons-Laffitte, peuvent emprunter le RER A direction Poissy.
Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des tr…

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
TARRANT: [Disbelieving] Telekinesis?
ORAC: The power to move objects at a distance using only the mind-
DAYNA: [Cutting him off] Yes, we know what it means.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/445 B7B2

Metronome: Efficient Scheduling for Periodic Traffic Jobs with Network and Priority Awareness
Hao Jiang, Meng Qin, Ruijie Kuai, Dandan Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12274 htt…

Metronome: Efficient Scheduling for Periodic Traffic Jobs with Network and Priority Awareness
With the rapid growth in computing power demand, cloud native networks have emerged as a promising solution to address the challenges of efficient resource coordination, particularly in coping with the dynamic fluctuations of network bandwidth in clusters. We propose Metronome, a network-aware and priority-aware scheduling mechanism for cloud native networks. This mechanism is designed to support jobs that exhibit periodic traffic patterns and dynamic bandwidth demands, particularly in the cont…

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-mapping-reveals-hidden-mining-boom-in-laos-that-threatens-the-mekong/

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong
BANGKOK — A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, including major tributaries of the Mekong, Southeast Asia’s longest river, heightening concerns about contamination of waterways that sustain local communities. Stimson has not ground-truthed the mine sites identified through satellite imagery, but Mongabay spoke […]

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
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Integrating Structure-Aware Attention and Knowledge Graphs in Explainable Recommendation Systems
Shuangquan Lyu, Ming Wang, Huajun Zhang, Jiasen Zheng, Junjiang Lin, Xiaoxuan Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10109

Integrating Structure-Aware Attention and Knowledge Graphs in Explainable Recommendation Systems
This paper designs and implements an explainable recommendation model that integrates knowledge graphs with structure-aware attention mechanisms. The model is built on graph neural networks and incorporates a multi-hop neighbor aggregation strategy. By integrating the structural information of knowledge graphs and dynamically assigning importance to different neighbors through an attention mechanism, the model enhances its ability to capture implicit preference relationships. In the proposed me…