2025-09-12 08:28:00
Student leads community response to floods in Nepal, inspiring others to take action for climate resilience. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
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
One of my Nepali students shared this article with me, "A primer for what is happening in Nepal", which was more informative than anything else I've read about the situation in Nepal.
https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-what-is-happening-in
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
Nepal is the third South Asian country in the past four years to stage a violent overthrow of its government.
Demonstranten in Nepal en Indonesië zoeken hun toevlucht tot Bitchat-app om censuur te omzeilen
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/demonstranten-in-nepal-en-indonesie-zoeken-hun-toevlucht-tot-bit…
Wavelet-Space Super-Resolution for Real-Time Rendering
Prateek Poudel, Prashant Aryal, Kirtan Kunwar, Navin Nepal, Dinesh Bania Kshatri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16024 https://…
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…
Developing a Responsible AI Framework for Healthcare in Low Resource Countries: A Case Study in Nepal and Ghana
Hari Krishna Neupane, Bhupesh Kumar Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12389
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-plat…
Putin should look at Nepal and be afraid
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5504320-putin-should-look-at-nepal-and-be-afraid/
"Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal"
#Bhutan #Nepal #Renewables
Over 100K Nepali citizens gathered on Discord to help nominate an interim leader after protests sparked by a social media ban led to the government's collapse (Pranav Baskar/New York Times)
https://www.
Illegal pet trade in Nepal now shifting online, research suggests https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/illegal-pet-trade-in-nepal-now-shifting-online-research-suggests/
You can now virtually explore the stunning landscapes and vibrant culture of Nepal in Street View.
Wander the lively streets of Kathmandu, discover the serene beauty of the Terai region or wind along roads that offer breathtaking views of the snow-capped Himalayas — all virtually.
You can even immerse yourself in Nepal’s rich architectural history, ancient temples and bustling markets.
https://restofworld.org/2025/nepal-gen-z-protest/ The news from Nepal are worrisome. A corrupt government shouldn't be banning people from using Internet services without due process, but not been able to block a company if doesn't comply with the law because people could stat…
At least 19 killed in ‘gen Z’ protests against Nepal’s social media ban
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube
Nepal lifts social media ban after deadly youth protests https://therecord.media/nepal-social-media-ban-lifted-after-deadly-protests
Nepal PM Oli quits as anti-corruption protests spiral (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nepal-pm-oli-quits-anti-corruption-protests-spiral-his-aide-says-2025-09-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p21#a250909p21
I'm seeing Mastodon listed in this article about social media bans in Nepal:
https://kathmandupost.com/money/2025/09/05/confusion-as-nepal-bans-unregistered-social-media-sites
Does anyone know how they're handling the whole decentralization aspect? Is it just mastodon dot social that's banned, or is it all instances? The entire Fediverse?
> more than 100,000 citizens were using Discord, an online communication software, to select a nominee for interim leader [of Nepal]
> The median age of Nepal's population is 25
Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests
Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer "callebtc" (Javier Bastardo/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-asset
Towards Faithful Class-level Self-explainability in Graph Neural Networks by Subgraph Dependencies
Fanzhen Liu, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jian Yang, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris, Quan Z. Sheng, Jia Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11513
Nepal social media ban sparks protests, dozens injured https://therecord.media/nepal-social-media-ban-protests
#PSA #feditips It seems that Nepal has blocked access to (some?) Mastodon sites.
With domain fronting the blocking of many fediverse sites can be circumvented.
This is based on the fact that many websites share the same IP number. Therefore a government blocking access to a website can in many cases only block the domain, but not the IP of the site, otnerwise many other websites would be blocked too.
By either configuring a proxy in the mastodon app or on the device or by usin…
#PSA #feditips It seems that Nepal has blocked access to (some?) Mastodon sites.
With domain fronting the blocking of many fediverse sites can be circumvented.
This is based on the fact that many websites share the same IP number. Therefore a government blocking access to a website can in many cases only block the domain, but not the IP of the site, otnerwise many other websites would be blocked too.
By either configuring a proxy in the mastodon app or on the device or by usin…
Live Updates: Parliament Burns in Nepal as Protests Force Prime Minister to Quit (Associated Press)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/09/world/nepal-protests
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p67#a250909p67
Hey #Nepal .... just join the #Fediverse :)
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
Nepal's parliament set on fire after PM resigns over anti-corruption protests
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c741n80ndlxt
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after they failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-platform-3b42…
Future G Network's New Reality: Opportunities and Security Challenges
Chandra Thapa, Surya Nepal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09006 https://arxiv.org/pdf…
Adversarial Attacks Against Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey
Fanzhen Liu, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08463
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
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."
The #brutal #stupidity of the #StephenMillerAdminstration is hard to top. And Miller certainly knows how to #manipulateTrump
The #brutal #stupidity of the #StephenMillerAdminstration is hard to top. And Miller certainly knows how to #manipulateTrump
2025 Gen Z protests against corruption in governments: Kenya, Serbia, Nepal.
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
Tourism surge and climate change threaten Nepal’s Mustang https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/tourism-surge-and-climate-change-threaten-nepals-mustang/
🏴☠️ 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…
Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for 60,000 from Central America and Nepal (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tps-nepal-honduras-nicaragua-noem-3a9de82ede381c6d969fd5aac13635f9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p145#a250731p145
Inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids under deletion
Tom Braden, Luis Ferroni, Jacob P. Matherne, Nutan Nepal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01086 https://
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…
The oldest Milky Way stars: New constraints on the age of the Universe and the Hubble constant
Elena Tomasetti, Cristina Chiappini, Samir Nepal, Michele Moresco, Carmela Lardo, Andrea Cimatti, Friedrich Anders, Anna B. A. Queiroz, Guilherme Limberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02692
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19 deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nepal…
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19 deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban (Gopal Sharma/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
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
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
RINSER: Accurate API Prediction Using Masked Language Models
Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Christopher Cody, Muhammad Ikram, Sean Lamont, Alsharif Abuadbba, Seyit Camtepe, Surya Nepal, Muhammad Ali Kaafar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04887
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
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
LLMs in the SOC: An Empirical Study of Human-AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centres
Ronal Singh, Shahroz Tariq, Fatemeh Jalalvand, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris, Martin Lochner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18947
Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
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- Wavelet-Space Super-Resolution Network for Rendering Pipelines
Prateek Poudel, Prashant Aryal, Kirtan Kunwar, Navin Nepal, Dinesh Baniya Kshatri