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US tech enabled China's surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-surveillance-technology-silicon-valley-eadac8211c5d0ca88374afecfbba00d5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p35#a251220p35

Gen Z protests brought about change in Nepal via the powers—and perils—of social media
https://theconversation.com/gen-z-protests-brought-about-change-in-nepal-via-the-powers-and-perils-of-social-media-265365

Gen Z protests brought about change in Nepal via the powers — and perils — of social media
Social media plays a major role in empowering youth as it did in the recent Gen Z protests in Nepal. But its role in protest movements can also be problematic.

Today I learned about Kukur Tihar, a festival day in Nepal where dogs are honored for their loyalty and honesty.
This year it falls on October 19 - I don't have a dog, but I think it is the kind of festival we should adopt.
Be kind to all dogs, and especially on Kukur Tihar!
https://himalayan-masters.co…

Kukur Tihar: The Truth Behind Nepal’s Dog Festival
Learn more about what is Kukur Tihar in Nepal, why are dog worshipped and what are the rituals performed while worshipping dogs?

"Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal"
#Bhutan #Nepal #Renewables

Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
For the first time, renewables have toppled coal as the world's leading source of electricity, in keeping with International Energy Agency projections for this historic shift.

Ich hatte die rezenten Unruhen in Nepal zwar am Schirm, aber nicht das Ausmaß niedergebrannter Gebäude in Kathmandu, von dem mir gestern erzählt wurde. Mitarbeiter*innen der National Archives konnten knapp verhindern, dass das Gebäude niedergebrannt wurde, indem sie sich selbst davorstellten. (Die National Archives sind auch für Sanskrithandschriften sehr, sehr wichtig.)

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (Tulsi Rauniyar/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nepal-discord-gen-z-protests-vote-prime-…

The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord
The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.

Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention
Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States
Bu J. P. HILL
https://www.jphilll.com/p/resistance-is-happening-everywhere

Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention
Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States

Future G Network's New Reality: Opportunities and Security Challenges
Chandra Thapa, Surya Nepal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09006 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Future G Network's New Reality: Opportunities and Security Challenges
Future G network's new reality is a widespread cyber-physical environment created by Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). It is a crucial technology that transforms wireless connections into ubiquitous sensors. ISAC unlocks transformative new capabilities, powering autonomous systems, augmented human sensing, and next-generation immersive applications, such as digital twins. However, this new reality fundamentally reshapes the security landscape. The primary security concern shifts from…

An Artificial Intelligence Driven Semantic Similarity-Based Pipeline for Rapid Literature
Abhiyan Dhakal (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal), Kausik Paudel (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal), Sanjog Sigdel (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15292

An Artificial Intelligence Driven Semantic Similarity-Based Pipeline for Rapid Literature
We propose an automated pipeline for performing literature reviews using semantic similarity. Unlike traditional systematic review systems or optimization based methods, this work emphasizes minimal overhead and high relevance by using transformer based embeddings and cosine similarity. By providing a paper title and abstract, it generates relevant keywords, fetches relevant papers from open access repository, and ranks them based on their semantic closeness to the input. Three embedding models…

The Gen Z protests are several protests in countries around the world said to be predominantly led by the eponymous Generation Z during the 2020s. 12 protests have been identified, with 4 toppling their government (Bangladesh, Nepal, Madagascar, Sri Lanka).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_pr

Gen Z protests - Wikipedia

Social Photo-Elicitation: The Use of Communal Production of Meaning to Hear a Vulnerable Population
Aakash Gautam, Chandani Shrestha, Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00964

Social Photo-Elicitation: The Use of Communal Production of Meaning to Hear a Vulnerable Population
We report on an initial ethnographic exploration of the situation of sex-trafficking survivors in Nepal. In the course of studying trafficking survivors in a protected-living situation created by a non-governmental organization in Nepal, we adapted photo-elicitation to hear the voices of the survivors by making the technique more communal. Bringing sociality to the forefront of the method reduced the pressure on survivors to assert voices as individuals, allowing them to speak. We make three co…

Student leads community response to floods in Nepal, inspiring others to take action for climate resilience. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Student goes above and beyond for community facing devastating floods: 'His example will encourage others'
In the aftermath of floods in Nepal, one University of Bristol student worked to develop a community safety and response plan to provide first aid supplies and training to residents.

Virtual Information Session: Buddhist Studies Graduate Programs of Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Nepal
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From the Wikipedia article about the selection process:
"Girls who pass these basic eligibility requirements are examined for the battis lakshanas, or "thirty-two perfections" of a goddess, which involves their bodies being stripped of all clothing and caressed by the priests....In addition to this, her hair and eyes should be as black as possible, and she should have dainty hands and feet, small and well-recessed sexual organs, and a set of twenty teeth."

🏴‍☠️ From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
https://theconversation.com/from-anime-to-activism-how-the-one-piece-pirate-flag-became-the-global-e…

From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
From Nepal and Jakarta to Paris and New York, the grinning skeletal image of the Jolly Roger of the Straw Hat Pirates has been a transnational emblem of rebellion.

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

Electronic and thermal properties of the phase-change memory material, Ge2Sb2Te5, and results from spatially resolved transport calculations
Kishor Nepal, Aashish Gautam, Ridwan Hussein, Konstantinos Konstantinou, Stephen. R. Elliott, Chinonso Ugwumadu, David A. Drabold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04783…

Electronic and thermal properties of the phase-change memory material, Ge2Sb2Te5, and results from spatially resolved transport calculations
We report new insights into the electronic, structural, and transport (heat and charge) properties of the phase-change memory material Ge2Sb2Te5. Using realistic structural models of Konstantinou et. al. [Nat. Commun. 10, 3065 (2019)], we analyze the topology, electronic states, and lattice dynamics with density functional methods, including hybrid-functional calculations and machine-learned interatomic potentials. The Kohn-Sham orbitals near the Fermi level display a strong electron-phonon cou…

Inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids under deletion
Tom Braden, Luis Ferroni, Jacob P. Matherne, Nutan Nepal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01086 https://

Inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids under deletion
We provide a deletion formula for the inverse Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomial and the inverse $Z$-polynomial of a matroid. Our formulas provide analogues to the deletion formulas of Braden--Vysogorets for Kazhdan--Lusztig and $Z$-polynomials. We discuss several consequences, which include closed formulas and recursions for these invariants on uniform matroids, projective geometries, glued cycles, and arbitrary matroids of corank $2$. As a relevant application of our deletion formula, we show the ex…

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why. - CSMonitor.com https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/1124/Gen-Zers-have-taken-on-their-governments.-From-around-the-world-they-tell-us-why

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why.
From Nepal to Peru and from Madagascar to Morocco, Generation Z-led protests have rocked governments. The revolution has brushstrokes of youth, from the use of a gaming platform to organize it to a ubiquitous symbol – a Jolly Roger flag. Perhaps most extraordinary about the Gen Z protests: their interconnection. A global generation has spawned a global movement.

Virtual Information Session: Buddhist Studies Graduate Programs of Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Nepal https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133798/virtual-information-session-buddhist-studies-graduate-programs

MulVuln: Enhancing Pre-trained LMs with Shared and Language-Specific Knowledge for Multilingual Vulnerability Detection
Van Nguyen, Surya Nepal, Xingliang Yuan, Tingmin Wu, Fengchao Chen, Carsten Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04397

MulVuln: Enhancing Pre-trained LMs with Shared and Language-Specific Knowledge for Multilingual Vulnerability Detection
Software vulnerabilities (SVs) pose a critical threat to safety-critical systems, driving the adoption of AI-based approaches such as machine learning and deep learning for software vulnerability detection. Despite promising results, most existing methods are limited to a single programming language. This is problematic given the multilingual nature of modern software, which is often complex and written in multiple languages. Current approaches often face challenges in capturing both shared and…

Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government's TikTok Ban
Prerana Khatiwada, Alejandro Ciuba, Aditya Nayak, Aakash Gautam, Matthew Louis Mauriello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07200

Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government's TikTok Ban
Social media platforms have transformed global communication and interaction, with TikTok emerging as a critical tool for education, connection, and social impact, including in contexts where infrastructural resources are limited. Amid growing political discussions about banning platforms like TikTok, such actions can create significant ripple effects, particularly impacting marginalized communities. We present a study on Nepal, where a TikTok ban was recently imposed and lifted. As a low-resou…

"Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature #Environment

Really hoping to see some One Piece flags in the pictures from the next #NoKings Day protests. I also hope everyone has brotherd to check the notes from Nepal. Regimes can collapse faster than expected. Sometimes it can be a total surprise.
I know things feel impossible right now, but you need to have a plan for when you win because it might surprise you. The other good thing about having a plan is that it gives you something to fight for instead of just something to fight against.
#USPol

Nepal is the third South Asian country in the past four years to stage a violent overthrow of its government.