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Shaheds over NATO countries: Moscow calls it "UFO"!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/shaheds-over-nato-countries-moscow.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:
🎵 Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)
#ClapYourHandsSayYeah
https://clapyourhandssayyeah.bandcamp.com/track/over-and-over-again-lost-and-found
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IbJly2kHiypBX5afabwmG

Musician Ela Minus on having more power over your work
#creativity #artist

Musician Ela Minus on having more power over your work – The Creative Independent
Musician Ela Minus discusses demystifying your industry, questioning yourself and the systems around you, and the importance of teaching others

Ad tech company Magnite files an antitrust complaint against Google in federal court; the company is the third sell-side ad platform to sue Google in two months (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/magnite-becomes…

Magnite Becomes Third SSP in Two Months to Sue Google Over Antitrust Allegations
Magnite, the third SSP to sue Google over antitrust allegations in under two months, claims the tech giant unlawfully stifled competition.

Vooroordelen over gender - Mainzer Beobachter
https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/08/18/vooroordelen-over-gender/
> Als iedereen over gender één vooroordeel afleert, is "Gender Stereotypes in Archaeology" een nuttig boekje.

Trump calls own supporters 'weaklings' as MAGA's Epstein backlash grows
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-17/trump-calls-own-supporters-weaklings-over-epstein/105540430

Trump calls own supporters 'weaklings' as MAGA's Epstein backlash grows
The US president used an expletive and described many of his loyal fans as "PAST supporters" as backlash within the Make America Great Again movement grows.

Bucs OC Grizzard: Jalen McMillan's production from late last year carried over into 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/bucs-oc-grizzard-jalen-mcmillan-s-production-from-late-last-year-carried-over-into-2025

Bizar, hoe van der Plas alleen op een vraag van (zielsverwant) Stoffer over Israel/Gaza antwoord wil geven en verder geen vragen over Gaza wil beantwoorden 'want vandaag gaat het over de miljoenennota'. Dassen, Ouwehand en van Baarle krijgen het alledrie niet voor elkaar. Van der Plas 'wil er geen Gaza debat van maken'.
Beginnersfout: het zijn de *algemene* politieke beschouwingen. Niet de financiële beschouwingen.
Dit is duiken. O ja, Hamas was overal de schuld van…

Israël heeft in Gaza meer dan honderdtachtig Palestijnse journalisten gedood. Op de Westelijke Jordaanoever en in Oost-Jeruzalem worden ze vaak opgepakt en bedreigd. Hoe kunnen zij hun werk nog doen? NRC sprak met zes Palestijnse journalisten.
https://www.

In Palestina is de journalistiek levensgevaarlijk: ‘Toch denk ik er nooit over om te stoppen’
Journalistiek: Israël heeft in Gaza meer dan honderdtachtig Palestijnse journalisten gedood. Op de Westelijke Jordaanoever en in Oost-Jeruzalem worden ze vaak opgepakt en bedreigd. Hoe kunnen zij hun werk nog doen? NRC sprak met zes Palestijnse journalisten.

One more reason to choose #Postgres over #MySQL
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/one-more-re

“The EU’s most senior diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said the bloc would keep ‘options on the table’ to pressure Israel’s government if there was no improvement in the ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian situation in Gaza. According to several diplomatic sources she did not endorse any one of 10 sanctions options drawn up by her team, after an earlier EU review found ‘indications’ Israel was in breach of human rights commitments.”

Joe Milton III becoming latest Cowboys trade debacle before the preseason's even over https://fansided.com/nfl/joe-milton-becoming-latest-cowboys-trade-debacle-before-preseason-even-over

Medicaid Hands Over Database Of Enrollees To ICE - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/medicaid-hands-over-database-of-enrollees-to-ice/

Raiders' Ashton Jeanty runs over 49ers, finds end zone in bounce-back outing: 'I've arrived' https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-ashton-jeanty-runs-over-49ers-finds-end-zone-bounce-back-outing

Apple sues Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over iOS 26 leaks, alleging a plot to access Apple employee's iPhone for trade secrets; Prosser denies the claim (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/

Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks
Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared multiple videos showing off what he claimed to be re-created renderings of what was then presumed to...

Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property
Saharon Shelah, Alexander Usvyatsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12631 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property
We consider the following property of a first order theory T with a distinguished unary predicate P: every model of the theory of P occurs as the P-part of some model of T. We call this property the Gaifman property. Gaifman conjectured that if T is relatively categorical over P, then it has the Gaifman property. We propose a generalized version of this conjecture: if T fails the Gaifman property, then it exhibits non-structure over P, i.e., has many non-isomorphic models over P in many cardina…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 19 nodes and 132 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Several types of quantum Wasserstein distance based on an optimization over separable states
G\'eza T\'oth, J\'ozsef Pitrik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14523

Several types of quantum Wasserstein distance based on an optimization over separable states
We consider several definitions of the quantum Wasserstein distance based on an optimization over general bipartite quantum states with given marginals. Then, we examine the quantities obtained after the optimization is carried out over bipartite separable states instead. We prove that several of these quantities are equal to each other. Thus, we connect several approaches in the literature. As a byproduct, we show that the Uhlmann-Jozsa quantum fidelity can also be written as an optimization o…

Sometime last night, I walked over 2225 km for the year, putting me over my total walking distance for all of last year. Several more months to go!

What does jamming a crowbar into the fracture point look like?
When the Trump admin says they’re backing off deporting agricultural workers, remind the racists that Trump screwed them over to appease its ultawealthy corporate ag owners.
When the Trump admin keeps deporting undocumented people seeking work and thus drains the abusable labor pool, remind the rich corps who employ those people that Trump screwed them over to appease the racist chucklefucks who really control it.
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K3 surfaces over small number fields and Kummer constructions in families
Stefan Schr\"oer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14732 https://

K3 surfaces over small number fields and Kummer constructions in families
We construct K3 surfaces over number fields that have good reduction everywhere. These do not exists over the rational numbers, by results of Abrashkin and Fontaine. Our surfaces exist for three quadratic number fields, and an infinite family of $S_3$-number fields. To this end we develop a theory of Kummer constructions in families, based on Romagny's notion of the effective models, here applied to sign involutions. This includes quotients of non-normal surfaces by infinitesimal group schemes …

The Few-shot Dilemma: Over-prompting Large Language Models
Yongjian Tang, Doruk Tuncel, Christian Koerner, Thomas Runkler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13196 https://

The Few-shot Dilemma: Over-prompting Large Language Models
Over-prompting, a phenomenon where excessive examples in prompts lead to diminished performance in Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges the conventional wisdom about in-context few-shot learning. To investigate this few-shot dilemma, we outline a prompting framework that leverages three standard few-shot selection methods - random sampling, semantic embedding, and TF-IDF vectors - and evaluate these methods across multiple LLMs, including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5-turbo, DeepSeek-V3, Gemma-3, LLaMA-3…

An Exhaustive DPLL Approach to Model Counting over Integer Linear Constraints with Simplification Techniques
Mingwei Zhang, Zhenhao Gu, Liangda Fang, Cunjing Ge, Ziliang Chen, Zhao-Rong Lai, Quanlong Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13880

An Exhaustive DPLL Approach to Model Counting over Integer Linear Constraints with Simplification Techniques
Linear constraints are one of the most fundamental constraints in fields such as computer science, operations research and optimization. Many applications reduce to the task of model counting over integer linear constraints (MCILC). In this paper, we design an exact approach to MCILC based on an exhaustive DPLL architecture. To improve the efficiency, we integrate several effective simplification techniques from mixed integer programming into the architecture. We compare our approach to state-o…

#VdPlas wil het niet over Gaza hebben, omdat het al de hele tijd over Gaza gaat.
Debat Direct:
https://

Monotone weak distributive laws over the lifted powerset monad in categories of algebras
Quentin Aristote (UPCit\'e, IRIF, PICUBE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13058

Monotone weak distributive laws over the lifted powerset monad in categories of algebras
Noticing the similarity between the monotone weak distributive laws combining two layers of nondeterminism in sets and in compact Hausdorff spaces, we study whether the latter law can be obtained automatically as a weak lifting of the former. This holds partially, but does not generalize to other categories of algebras: we then characterize when exactly monotone weak distributive laws over powerset monads in categories of algebras exist, exhibiting a law combining probabilities and non-determin…

Jeg har været til kimchi-kursus og er helt på toppen over den frihed vores underviser lagde ned over det hele. Brug lokale grŸntsager (spidskål, fx, hold op hvor blev det godt). Put lidt honning i hvis du kan lide det. Lad det stå tre dage eller otte. Smag dig frem! Og så havde hun skŸnne fortællinger med fra Korea. SkŸnt, skŸnt!

I became so bored with Pokémon Go... and it makes me sad.
It was just feeling like the same thing over and over again
#PokemonGo

30%
👉 The damage caused by a disaster can be reduced by 30% if an early warning is issued within 24 hours.
1/3
👉 About 30% of the global population are not yet covered by early warning systems.
50 years
👉 On average, from 1970-2019, a weather, climate or water-related disaster has occurred every day.
5x
👉 The number of disasters has increased five-fold over a 50-year period (19070-2019).
50%
👉 50% of all disasters recorded over a 50-year …

Early warning system

Brendan Carr says the FCC may need to pursue "remedies" against Jimmy Kimmel, if ABC doesn't discipline him, for implying Charlie Kirk's killer was a MAGA fan (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/just…

JUST IN: Trump FCC Chair Threatens ABC With Punishment Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Charlie Kirk Comments
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened Jimmy Kimmel over his "concerted effort to lie to the American people" by claiming Charlie Kirk's killer was a Trump supporter

"Starmer’s disgrace over Israeli visit grows as UN names Herzog as genocide-inciter
The PM has blood on his hands, and everyone knows it."
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/16/starmers-disg…

Starmer's disgrace over Israeli visit grows as UN names Herzog as genocide-inciter
Just 6 days after Starmer met Herzog, the UN names the Israeli president as having "incited the commission of genocide"

FORGIVENESS

May the tide
never tire of its tender toil
how over and over
it forgives the Moon
the daily exile
and returns to turn
mountains into sand
     as if to say,
you too can have
this homecoming
you too possess
this elemental power
of turning
the stone in the heart
into golden dust.
— Maria Popova
#Poetry

ORFuzz: Fuzzing the "Other Side" of LLM Safety -- Testing Over-Refusal
Haonan Zhang, Dongxia Wang, Yi Liu, Kexin Chen, Jiashui Wang, Xinlei Ying, Long Liu, Wenhai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11222

ORFuzz: Fuzzing the "Other Side" of LLM Safety -- Testing Over-Refusal
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit over-refusal - erroneously rejecting benign queries due to overly conservative safety measures - a critical functional flaw that undermines their reliability and usability. Current methods for testing this behavior are demonstrably inadequate, suffering from flawed benchmarks and limited test generation capabilities, as highlighted by our empirical user study. To the best of our knowledge, this paper introduces the first evolutionary testing fra…

‘I’m proud to have made this stand’: over-60s arrested at Palestine Action ban protest explain their decision https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-inter

When the law enforcement is corrupt, the criminals roam free and the law is used to pursue people over personal dislikes. We really want the criminals out of law enforcement.
When the #CodeOfConduct enforcement is corrupt, the truly toxic people roam free and the rules are used to bully people over personal dislikes. Why do we applaud projects for adopting a CoC if they are not pursuing independent judgement?
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

"Upcycling solar glass waste to use in solid-state lithium batteries"
#Glass #Batteries #Energy

Upcycling solar glass waste to use in solid-state lithium batteries
Nanyang Technological University researchers have milled solar panel glass waste for use in cathodes used in solid state lithium metal batteries. When used as a functional filler in solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) material, the resulting battery performance was maintained over 80 charge cycles with an 8.3 % improvement over the reference device.

Software developer Heval Hazal Kurt discusses the pros and cons of relational databases, in comparison with their document-based counterparts, in this July 2025 article. Polyglot systems combining both paradigms are discussed as an ideal solution to differing data access needs within a same project.
"When to Choose NoSQL Over SQL"

Beyond ridiculous
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The hyperbolic circle problem over Heegner points
Dimitrios Chatzakos, Giacomo Cherubini, Stephen Lester, Morten S. Risager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13883

The hyperbolic circle problem over Heegner points
For the full modular group, we obtain a logarithmic improvement on Selberg's long-standing bound for the error term of the counting function in the hyperbolic circle problem over Heegner points of different discriminants. The main ingredients in our method are Waldspurger's formula, twisted first moments of certain Rankin-Selberg convolutions, and a new fractional moment estimate.

A Remedy for Over-Squashing in Graph Learning via Forman-Ricci Curvature based Graph-to-Hypergraph Structural Lifting
Michael Banf, Dominik Filipiak, Max Schattauer, Liliya Imasheva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11390

A Remedy for Over-Squashing in Graph Learning via Forman-Ricci Curvature based Graph-to-Hypergraph Structural Lifting
Graph Neural Networks are highly effective at learning from relational data, leveraging node and edge features while maintaining the symmetries inherent to graph structures. However, many real-world systems, such as social or biological networks, exhibit complex interactions that are more naturally represented by higher-order topological domains. The emerging field of Geometric and Topological Deep Learning addresses this challenge by introducing methods that utilize and benefit from higher-ord…

Context-Aware Search and Retrieval Over Erasure Channels
Sara Ghasvarianjahromi, Yauhen Yakimenka, J\"org Kliewer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11894 htt…

Context-Aware Search and Retrieval Over Erasure Channels
This paper introduces and analyzes a search and retrieval model that adopts key semantic communication principles from retrieval-augmented generation. We specifically present an information-theoretic analysis of a remote document retrieval system operating over a symbol erasure channel. The proposed model encodes the feature vector of a query, derived from term-frequency weights of a language corpus by using a repetition code with an adaptive rate dependent on the contextual importance of the t…

Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Non-Monotone Games over the Simplex
Tatiana Tatarenko, S. Rasoul Etesami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13244 https://

Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Non-Monotone Games over the Simplex
In this work, we present a novel characterization of approximate Nash equilibria in a class of convex games over the simplex. To achieve this, we regularize the utility functions using the Shannon entropy term, connect the solutions to the regularized game with the set of Nash equilibria, and formulate a multi-objective optimization problem to solve the regularized game. Based on the obtained properties of the stationary points in this optimization problem, we formulate two distributed heuristi…

A proof that all the sliding trajectories of generic inelastic piecewise linear dynamical systems over the torus are closed
Mayara D. A. Caldas, Ricardo M. Martins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11066

A proof that all the sliding trajectories of generic inelastic piecewise linear dynamical systems over the torus are closed
In this article, we consider piecewise smooth differential equations $Z_{X_-X_+}$, where $X_-$ and $X_+$ are linear vector fields in dimension 3, having the torus as discontinuity manifold. We consider that $Z_{X_-X_+}$ is an inelastic vector field over the torus. We classify the set of tangency points on the torus for certain conditions and describe the behavior of the trajectories of the sliding vector field over the torus. We prove that, under generic conditions, all the trajectories of a pi…

Imagine you're president, and someone in prison awaiting trial had dirt on you, dies suspiciously. Then ~6 years later people clamor for info you'd kill to suppress to be released anyway.
Might make you post: people should "not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about."
Rough Tuesday for Dopey McGropey.
His post from 3 days ago:

Donald J. Trump: "What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going...
What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, …

Now out in #TMLR:
🍇 GRAPES: Learning to Sample Graphs for Scalable Graph Neural Networks 🍇
There's lots of work on sampling subgraphs for GNNs, but relatively little on making this sampling process _adaptive_. That is, learning to select the data from the graph that is relevant for your task.
We introduce an RL-based and a GFLowNet-based sampler and show that the approach perf…

21 Blue States Sue Over New Obamacare Restrictions - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/21-blue-states-sue-over-new-obamacare-restrictions/

Happy homecomings for QB Cooper Rush, rookie K Tyler Loop in Ravens' 31-13 win over Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/happy-homecomings-for-qb-cooper-rush-rookie-k-tyler-loop-in-ravens-3113-win-over-co…

The Cambridge Analytica Saga is finally over. Meta/Facebook settles its $8B shareholder lawsuit in Delaware Chancery court today for alleged misconduct by Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Andressen, etc. during the scandal.

Ashton Jeanty runs over 49ers defenders, scores first NFL touchdown https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ashton-jeanty-runs-over-49ers-defenders-scores-first-nfl-touchdown/6…

The NAACP intends to sue xAI over the natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, which it claims are polluting nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Elon Musk’s AI Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines
The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.

Russian attacks kill 7, injure 25 in Ukraine over past day; train hit in drone strike: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

Gemiste kans.
NSC-kopstukken dachten na over opheffen partij https://nos.nl/l/2571549

NSC-kopstukken dachten na over opheffen partij
De partij worstelde met de toekomst op het politieke toneel na het vertrek van oprichter Pieter Omtzigt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
The Fin.:
🎵 Over The Hill
#TheFin
https://thefin6672.bandcamp.com/track/over-the-hill

Good point.
EU study warns over the shortcomings of AI benchmarking. Paper by EU researchers highlights problems with how AI models are currently measured and urges regulators to signal which benchmarks are trustworthy
"Measuring AI capabilities and risks is a challenge, and benchmarks have been found to promise too much, be easily gamed, and measure the wrong thing"

Commanders' Terry McLaurin 'frustrated' over contract talks, unsure if he reports to training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-terry-mclaurin-frustrated-over-contract-talks-unsure-if-he-reports-to-training-…

The Dutch caretaker government just scaled down the offshore wind target for 2040. Nienke Homan, chair of the chemical industry association VNCI, disagrees: "We need vision, guts, and pressing ahead."

Misschien heb je het gezien: ik keek toch moeilijk gisteren op het NOS journaal! | Nienke Homan
Misschien heb je het gezien: ik keek toch moeilijk gisteren op het NOS journaal! Ik mocht namelijk vertellen over de brief van het kabinet over windparken op zee: 🚫 Een slecht signaal én een slecht plan: het afschalen van de ambities voor windparken op zee (naar de ondergrens van de scenario’s) . Waarom dat een slecht signaal en een slecht plan is? 🌬️ Allereerst hebben we enorme hoeveelheden duurzame energie nodig om fossiele brandstoffen en grondstoffen te vervangen en onze CO₂-…

SafeConstellations: Steering LLM Safety to Reduce Over-Refusals Through Task-Specific Trajectory
Utsav Maskey, Sumit Yadav, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11290

SafeConstellations: Steering LLM Safety to Reduce Over-Refusals Through Task-Specific Trajectory
LLMs increasingly exhibit over-refusal behavior, where safety mechanisms cause models to reject benign instructions that superficially resemble harmful content. This phenomena diminishes utility in production applications that repeatedly rely on common prompt templates or applications that frequently rely on LLMs for specific tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis, language translation). Through comprehensive evaluation, we demonstrate that LLMs still tend to refuse responses to harmful instructions wh…

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

Mom and child detained over visa error released from US facility - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/16/mom-and-child-detained-over-visa-error-released-from-us-facility/

Multipartite Mixed-Species Entanglement over a Quantum Network
D. Main, P. Drmota, E. M. Ainley, A. Agrawal, D. Webb, S. Saner, O. Bazavan, B. C. Nichol, R. Srinivas, D. P. Nadlinger, G. Araneda, D. M. Lucas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14334

Multipartite Mixed-Species Entanglement over a Quantum Network
We generate multipartite entangled states of two, three and four matter qubits, where the entanglement is distributed over macroscopic distances via a photonic network link. Trapped-ion ${}^{88}\text{Sr}^+$ qubits are entangled directly via the optical fibre link, and the entanglement is subsequently extended to ${}^{43}\text{Ca}^+$ memory qubits co-trapped in each network node, using local mixed-species logic gates. We create remotely entangled $\text{Sr}^+$-$\text{Ca}^+$ and $\text{Ca}^+$-$\t…

Australia's ACCC says Google agreed pay a ~$36M fine over deals from 2019-2021 with Telstra and Optus to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Orthogonality of non-pretentious functions to polynomials over Function Fields
Tal Meilin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12755…

Orthogonality of non-pretentious functions to polynomials over Function Fields
We prove that non-pretentious multiplicative functions are orthogonal to polynomials over $\mF_q[x]$ (up to characteristic conditions).

Russian attacks kill 5, injure 11 across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

On the algebraic $K$-theory of smooth schemes over truncated Witt vectors
Xiaowen Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12458 https://arxiv.o…

On the algebraic $K$-theory of smooth schemes over truncated Witt vectors
Using Brun's theorem relating the relative algebraic $K$-theory and the relative cyclic homology, we compute certain relative algebraic $K$-groups of a $p$-adic smooth scheme over $W_n(k)$, where $k$ is a perfect field of characteristic $p$. Inspired by this result and the work of Bloch, Esnault, and Kerz, we define the infinitesimal motivic complexes, and then show a relative Chern character isomorphism with integral coefficients in a range. This has a direct consequence on infinitesimal defor…

Tja, zo lang het om anderen gaat hoef je niet zo kritisch te zijn, maar zodra het om jezelf gaat ...
Nu hij parkinson heeft, denkt oud-Kamerlid en boerenzoon Rendert Algra anders over pesticiden https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenlan…

Nu hij parkinson heeft, denkt oud-Kamerlid en boerenzoon Rendert Algra anders over pesticiden
Voormalig CDA-Tweede Kamerlid Rendert Algra (61) heeft de ziekte van Parkinson. De Fries weet het zeker: dat is te wijten aan zijn jeugd op de boerderij, toen hij met bestrijdingsmiddelen spoot. Die moeten veel kritischer worden beoordeeld, vindt hij nu.

State Space Models over Directed Graphs
Junzhi She, Xunkai Li, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13735 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13735…

State Space Models over Directed Graphs
Directed graphs are ubiquitous across numerous domains, where the directionality of edges encodes critical causal dependencies. However, existing GNNs and graph Transformers tailored for directed graphs face two major challenges: (1) effectively capturing long-range causal dependencies derived from directed edges; (2) balancing accuracy and training efficiency when processing large-scale graph datasets. In recent years, state space models (SSMs) have achieved substantial progress in causal sequ…

InsertRank: LLMs can reason over BM25 scores to Improve Listwise Reranking
Rahul Seetharaman, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Aman Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14086

InsertRank: LLMs can reason over BM25 scores to Improve Listwise Reranking
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant strides across various information retrieval tasks, particularly as rerankers, owing to their strong generalization and knowledge-transfer capabilities acquired from extensive pretraining. In parallel, the rise of LLM-based chat interfaces has raised user expectations, encouraging users to pose more complex queries that necessitate retrieval by ``reasoning'' over documents rather than through simple keyword matching or semantic similari…

Hi everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three lovely people from Gaza today over video chat on Signal and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family:
• Yasmeen (@…)
• Bilal (@…)
• Ahmed …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Population Estimation using Deep Learning over Gandhinagar Urban Area
Jai Singla, Peal Jotania, Keivalya Pandya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12926 https://ar…

Population Estimation using Deep Learning over Gandhinagar Urban Area
Population estimation is crucial for various applications, from resource allocation to urban planning. Traditional methods such as surveys and censuses are expensive, time-consuming and also heavily dependent on human resources, requiring significant manpower for data collection and processing. In this study a deep learning solution is proposed to estimate population using high resolution (0.3 m) satellite imagery, Digital Elevation Models (DEM) of 0.5m resolution and vector boundaries. Propose…

'There were “media reports of people dying for lack of treatment” and on the “humanitarian impact of curfews affecting over 1 million people”. "There were Israeli soldiers indulging in “theft and looting from homes and shops and the vandalism of people’s homes”.
'And “many reports of the killing of unarmed Palestinians”.'
'But this is not Gaza in 2025. It was the occupied West Bank in 2002, described in an internal Foreign Office report'

UK aware of Israel’s ‘terror’ for over 20 years
Declassified files show Britain has long known of Israel’s criminality against Palestinians, as Whitehall has deepened its military, trade and diplomatic support.

Ministerie hield kritisch rapport over corruptie onder de pet.
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ministerie-hield-kritisch-rapport-over-corruptie-onder-de-pet

Ministerie hield kritisch rapport over corruptie onder de pet
Het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid begroef een kritisch rapport over corruptie bij de overheid omdat het kwalitatief onder de maat zou zijn. Follow the Money kreeg het met een beroep op de Woo in handen. Experts vinden het wel degelijk een goed rapport: Nederland is kwetsbaar voor corruptie en Den Haag doet er te weinig tegen.

Last night, while it was still twilight
#aurora #iceland #northernlights

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Indigo De Souza:
🎵 Crying Over Nothing
#IndigoDeSouza
https://indigodesouza.bandcamp.com/track/crying-over-nothing
https://open.spotify.com/track/4t3L9tL0PQi2Tbs0EHaCMx

Judge expands Paxton restraining order against O’Rourke over Texas Dems fundraising
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5456338-judge-expands-paxton-restraining-order-against-orourke-over-texas-dems-fundraising/

NBCU reaches a $3.6M settlement with LA County in a lawsuit over the absence of an easy mechanism to cancel automatically renewing Peacock subscriptions (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

NBCUniversal Reaches $3.6 Million Settlement In Lawsuit Over Peacock Subscription Cancellations
In the lawsuit, Los Angeles County targeted the studio's failure to give users a simple cancellation method.

Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

No. 1 pick Cam Ward, Titans offense sputter over three series against Falcons https://www.nfl.com/news/no-1-pick-cam-ward-titans-offense-sputter-over-three-series-against-falcons

At least 4 killed, 48 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

Cowboys' epic OT thriller over Giants gets NFL Films Mic'd Up video https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-epic-ot-thriller-over-giants-nfl-films-mic-d-up-video

Raiders Get Called Out by Ex-NFL Star Over Aston Jeanty Usage https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/called-out-aston-jeanty-usage/?adt_ei=[email]

Filing: Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67M to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 election, with $27M due this month (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/newsmax-dominion-settle-2020-election-defamatio…

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax millions.

Poland 'neutralizes' drone flying over government buildings, two Belarusian citizens detained, Tusk says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/poland-neutralizes-drone-flying-over.html

YouTube says it has paid out $100B to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/youtube-creators-pay.html

YouTube says it has paid creators more than $100 billion over last 4 years
The company also announced new artificial intelligence tools for YouTube Shorts, its short-form vertical video product.

NFL over/under win totals: Predictions and best bets for all 32 teams in 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6491260/2025/07/17/nfl-win-totals-bets-predictions-2025/

Russia implements 'severe austerity' amid financial crisis: military spending prioritized over national projects: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/russia-implements-severe-austerity-amid.html

An interview with News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall about a now-lifted two-year super injunction to silence UK media over a government data breach (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/a

Afghan data breach super injunction 'deeply disturbing' for press freedom, says Lewis Goodall
Podcast co-host Lewis Goodall has shared fears for the future of media over a court-imposed super injunction.

Microsoft adds auto model selection to Visual Studio Code that primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 for paid GitHub Copilot users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/778641/microsoft-visual-studio-code-anthropic-claude-4…

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft is favoring Anthropic’s AI models over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code. It’s also recommending that Microsoft’s developers to use Claude 4.

NFLPA dispute emerges over lawsuit awareness https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45762449/nflpa-members-disagree-knowledge-lloyd-howell-lawsuit

Orban urges EU action over Ukraine's conscription practices: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/orban-urges-eu-action-over.html

YouTube says it has paid out $100B to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/youtube-creators-pay.html

YouTube says it has paid creators more than $100 billion over last 4 years
The company also announced new artificial intelligence tools for YouTube Shorts, its short-form vertical video product.

NFL won grievance against NFLPA over fake injuries in February, denies it concealed ruling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500152/2025/07/17/nfl-grievance-nflpa-fake-injuries/

Lamb won't be fined for being run over by ref https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45995887/ceedee-lamb-fined-being-run-official

Syrskyi dismisses 2 corps commanders over lost territory, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/syrskyi-dismisses-corps-commanders-over.html

Lions' Brian Branch saw win over Bears HC Ben Johnson as personal: 'We'd been betrayed' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-brian-branch-saw-win-over-bears-hc-ben-johnson-as-personal-we-d-been-betrayed

Russia launched over 1800 drones on Ukraine in one week, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russia-launched-over-drones-on.html