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swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers<…

Both parties brace for a 'long conflict' as government shutdown hits two-week mark (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/both-parties-brace-long-conflict-government-shutdown-two-week-mark-rcna236970
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p118#a251014p118

"New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets"
#NewZealand #Climate #ClimateChange

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

Dear People I am done with following hyped music, manufactured, and promoted by money grubbing bottom dwellers . For the most part we know who the guilty parties are....

Jaguars, Travis Hunter reveal keys to getting the No. 2 overall pick more involved on offense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaguars-t…

Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing
Jiangwei Chen, Kieu Thao Nguyen Pham, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Arun Verma, Zhaoxuan Wu, Chuan-Sheng Foo, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09240

Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing
In collaborative data sharing and machine learning, multiple parties aggregate their data resources to train a machine learning model with better model performance. However, as the parties incur data collection costs, they are only willing to do so when guaranteed incentives, such as fairness and individual rationality. Existing frameworks assume that all parties join the collaboration simultaneously, which does not hold in many real-world scenarios. Due to the long processing time for data cle…

ORQ: Complex Analytics on Private Data with Strong Security Guarantees
Eli Baum, Sam Buxbaum, Nitin Mathai, Muhammad Faisal, Vasiliki Kalavri, Mayank Varia, John Liagouris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10793

ORQ: Complex Analytics on Private Data with Strong Security Guarantees
We present ORQ, a system that enables collaborative analysis of large private datasets using cryptographically secure multi-party computation (MPC). ORQ protects data against semi-honest or malicious parties and can efficiently evaluate relational queries with multi-way joins and aggregations that have been considered notoriously expensive under MPC. To do so, ORQ eliminates the quadratic cost of secure joins by leveraging the fact that, in practice, the structure of many real queries allows us…

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.
Hello?
Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.
Enough of the false equivalence.
https://bsky.app/profile/rbr…

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social)
The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Finally, Dutch parliament (on initiative by D66) may determine that all political parties need to be open to members.
So far, the PVV was allowed to operate with only one member, by definition. Guess who.
https://www.tro…

Serieuze kans dat partijen straks leden móeten hebben, en dat heeft grote gevolgen voor de PVV
Een voorstel om partijen te verplichten leden toe te laten maakt een goede kans op een meerderheid. Dat zou grote impact hebben op de PVV van Geert Wilders.

💢 Research shows there are no easy fixes to political hatred
#politics

Research shows there are no easy fixes to political hatred
Tune into American politics today, and you'll hear something far more sinister than simple disagreement. The language has escalated: political parties trash talk each other—blaming rival parties for policy failures or even for causing incidents with national implications.

Payment Channels with Proofs
Chad E. Brown, Cezary Kaliszyk, Josef Urban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08268 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08268

Payment Channels with Proofs
The fundamental building blocks of the Bitcoin lightning network are bidirectional payment channels. We describe an extension of payment channels in the Proofgold network which allow the two parties to bet on whether a proposition will be proven by a certain time. These provide the foundation for a Proofgold lightning network that would allow parties to request proofs (by betting there will be no proof by a certain time) and other parties to provide proofs (and be rewarded by betting there will…

Late to the party (tbh, I don't attend many parties), but David Gilmour's album Luck and Strange is full of music I like:
https://album.link/i/1742106033

Why do rightwing parties in Europe call themselves "freedom parties"?

none of these words are in the bible

Moldova bans 2 pro-Russian parties on eve of key election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/moldova-bans-prorussian-parties-on.html

was just reminded where i was 15 years ago today, at all tomorrow's parties' last stand at kutsher's (or maybe just kutsher's last stand), the only place i've ever encountered an out-of-order sign on a mattress. probably one of my last proper blog posts. https://jessejarnow.com/2010/09/all-to

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Sayantika Mandal, Harman Agrawal, Swaprava Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11253 https://

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Firms (businesses, service providers, entertainment organizations, political parties, etc.) advertise on social networks to draw people's attention and improve their awareness of the brands of the firms. In all such cases, the competitive nature of their engagements gives rise to a game where the firms need to decide how to distribute their budget over the agents on a network to maximize their brand's awareness. The firms (players) therefore need to optimize how much budget they should put on t…

I believe the dismantling of capitalism and the state must come through direct action and self-organization by the working class, united in democratic, federated, and recallable unions. Power must grow from the bottom, from the workplaces and communities of ordinary people, instead of being handed to parties or leaders who claim to act on our behalf. Emancipation will only be achieved when workers collectively take control of production, end exploitation, and organize society through free co…

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Arthur C. R. Dutra, Ties-A. Ohst, Hai-Chau Nguyen, Otfried G\"uhne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09381

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Measurements that can be implemented via local operations and classical communication (LOCC) constitute a class of operations that is available in future quantum networks in which parties share entangled resource states. We characterise the different classes of measurements implementable with LOCC, where communication is restricted to a single round with a fixed direction. In particular, using the framework of constrained separability problems, we provide a complete characterisation of the clas…

It's been a while since an energy supplier in France offered dynamic prices to households. Since this month, there's a new one.
Sobry doesn't offer smart device control yet, but for most EVs and many heat pumps and A/Cs, device manufacturers or 3rd parties offer tools.
https://www.sobry.co/particulier

Compositional difference-in-differences for categorical outcomes
Onil Boussim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11659 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11659

Compositional difference-in-differences for categorical outcomes
In difference-in-differences (DiD) settings with categorical outcomes, treatment effects often operate on both total quantities (e.g., voter turnout) and category shares (e.g., vote distribution across parties). In this context, linear DiD models can be problematic: they suffer from scale dependence, may produce negative counterfactual quantities, and are inconsistent with discrete choice theory. We propose compositional DiD (CoDiD), a new method that identifies counterfactual categorical quant…

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Cagnotte Juridique | Association Chardons Bleus
Depuis 2015, nous luttons pour la justice contre les dérives sectaires de l’Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC)

https://theonion.com/local-teen-walks-in-on-family-masturbating-1819575823/

Local Teen Walks In On Family Masturbating
SALEM, OR—In a humiliating incident that all parties involved said they would “never get over,” Peter Miklewski, 15, confirmed he came home from school early Monday and accidentally walked in on seven members of his family masturbating in the living room. “Aaagh! Get out of here, goddammit!” shouted Peter’s parents, David and Jessica; his sister, Virginia; his older brother, Caleb; and his grandmother Emily, while his younger brother, Mark, and his aunt Fay reportedly scrambled to t…

Combining Blotto Networks and Voter Models to Simulate Voter Behavior in Response to Competitive Election Spending
Renee Jerome
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09697 https://

Combining Blotto Networks and Voter Models to Simulate Voter Behavior in Response to Competitive Election Spending
In the past, the Voter Model has been explicitly used to model the impact of propaganda on a dynamic, interconnected population, and certain factors have been identified that influence the behavior of voters when under outside influence. The Blotto Game has also been explicitly used to study information wars between two opposing parties, whether in regards to a political issue or advertising war. Both the graph theory behind the Voter Model and the game theory aspects of the Blotto Game are rel…

"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

DC Department of Parks and Recreation installed a new plaque at T Street Park memorializing William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved DC resident who was one of the country’s earliest advocates for LGBTQ rights.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the…

The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man
In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann's private parties attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press

A surprising link between hosting a bike race and reducing support for far right politics.
https://road.cc/content/news/tour-de-france-reduces-support-far-right-parties-315979

The Tour de France helps reduce support for far-right political parties, new research finds
Tour de France reduces support for far-right parties

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer
has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties,
a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville.
The race to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Mark Green could gauge the popularity of Donald Trump’s authoritarian second-term agenda, especially with suburban Republican voters.
There had be…

Special election in Tennessee draws a crowd in both parties
A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties. The departure of former U.S. Rep. Mark Green has resulted in the contested primary Tuesday in one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safe red seats in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville. Eleven Republicans are running in the 14-county district, with most attention centering on state Reps. Jody Barrett and Gino Bulso and former Ten…

DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Sachin Pawar, Manoj Apte, Girish K. Palshikar, Basit Ali, Nitin Ramrakhiyani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01962

DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Disputes between two parties occur in almost all domains such as taxation, insurance, banking, healthcare, etc. The disputes are generally resolved in a specific forum (e.g., consumer court) where facts are presented, points of disagreement are discussed, arguments as well as specific demands of the parties are heard, and finally a human judge resolves the dispute by often favouring one of the two parties. In this paper, we explore the use of large language models (LLMs) as assistants for the h…

Parties have split over less disastrous results, just saying

@… You gave me the idea to build something like it internally to my employer.
I see so many PowerPoints presented to clients with random redirects to shady 3rd parties.

omg parents stop getting meat pizza for your kids' bday parties.
The cheese pizza disappears in 3 seconds and everyone is left with the gross meat pizza. Every time!

Spoiler: of the existing parties (i.e. not including Your proto-Party), the #GreenParty wins by a league.
Which political parties support public ownership? | We Own It
https://weownit.…

Modern politics is an iterated prisoner's dilemma where one of the parties has repeatedly said and repeatedly proved that they don't care how much they screw themselves over as long as the other guys get screwed too.

Businesses are throwing parties celebrating his resignation...
OK GOP State Senator, Essentially: Ryan Walters’ Mandates Were Performative Bullshit | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/ok-gop-state-senator-essentially-ryan-walters-mandates-were-performative-bullshit/

Less than 2 years ago, the right and far-right parties later forming the now double-failed Dutch government coalition got 88 out of 150 seats in parliament. They're now polling at 53 seats.
The two parties still in the caretaker government together at 21 seats.

Farage (short for Fascist Anti-democratic Rage?) may well win the next general election. One way to stand a chance to avoid that is to change the system from a first-past-the-post to a proportional one. But there is no incentive for the party in power to do so. An easier possibility, keeping the constituencies as they are, may be a 2-stage election, with the two largest parties coming out of the first to face off in the second round. Constituencies will at least have MPs with 50 % majoritie…

You can hate me all you want, but when it comes to Zohran Mamdani, the reality is clear. He is a democratic socialist running as a candidate within the Democratic Party. Ultimately, by participating in the Democratic Party’s electoral system, he is operating within and effectively supporting the framework of American capitalism and imperialism.
The two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are fundamentally aligned in preserving the capitalist system that m…

From David Suzuki
For the past 30 years, global representatives have gathered for United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits, promising solutions. But political inaction continues to drive worsening climate disasters.
It’s hard not to be cynical. The COP process has become a theatre of contradiction. Recent summits have been hosted by petrostates & financed by polluters. Fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP28 & COP29 [en masse]

I've been using Broadcom/VMware ESXI 8 U3 on a Gen 15 Intel Ultra 9 powered box.
Gack, you would think that a giant company like Broadcom/VMware would keep its software up to date.
But no. One has to jump through special configuration hoops (not documented except by third parties) to even get ESXI loaded.
And then if one wants to use USB-4/Thunderbolt based network interface devices one has to find and install a "FLING" patch.
It seems to me that Broadc…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Bauhaus:
🎵 She's In Parties
#Bauhaus
https://djvampire.bandcamp.com/track/bauhaus-shes-in-parties-special-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RQkcg3BPdm8wJDVbrFRzr

A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/a

Unfortunately, 'Doing good" at a politicians request is perfectly harmless until it's not - and I know how I respond to requests to people who have done me a favor, even if it's to help someone else. And it is easy to get yourself associated with the favor you had someone grant to someone else - it's a great off-the-books campaign donation. And it's easy to do return favors.
Is it absolutely harmless the vast majority of times? Sure. Can/will it be abused? …

Should S.F. supervisors be allowed to solicit more funds, as a treat?
New legislation from Supervisor Mandelman would reinstate supes’ abilities to solicit ‘behested payments’ from parties with city contracts

Unfortunately, 'Doing good" at a politicians request is perfectly harmless until it's not - and I know how I respond to requests to people who have done me a favor, even if it's to help someone else. And it is easy to get yourself associated with the favor you had someone grant to someone else - it's a great off-the-books campaign donation. And it's easy to do return favors.
Is it absolutely harmless the vast majority of times? Sure. Can/will it be abused? …

Should S.F. supervisors be allowed to solicit more funds, as a treat?
New legislation from Supervisor Mandelman would reinstate supes’ abilities to solicit ‘behested payments’ from parties with city contracts

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

🙈 Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-political-parties-economic-inequality-large.html

Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a much smaller role in the election manifestos of political parties both in Germany and in other countries than researchers had previously assumed. These are the results of a current study by the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz, recently published in the…

> Parties in VR till 7 am (very reasonable)
> Goes to sleep
> Cat decides to spin like crazy on my bed at 9 am
> Obviously wakes me up
Man are u for fuckin real :neofox_x_x:

I see the fascists are going crazy because seven AfD candidates died in run up to local elections in Germany. They are too stupid to notice that eight candidates from other parties also died. AfD candidates were mostly old and male. Nothing to see here.
https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/…

Kommunalwahlen NRW: Keine Unregelmäßigkeiten bei toten AfD-Kandidaten
Im Internet wird über den Hintergrund mehrerer Todesfälle von AfD-Politikern vor den Kommunalwahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen spekuliert. Es gibt jedoch keinerlei Hinweise auf Fremdeinwirkung.

N-Parties Private Structure and Parameter Learning for Sum-Product Networks
Xenia Heilmann, Ernst Althaus, Mattia Cerrato, Nick Johannes Peter Rassau, Mohammad Sadeq Dousti, Stefan Kramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05946

N-Parties Private Structure and Parameter Learning for Sum-Product Networks
A sum-product network (SPN) is a graphical model that allows several types of probabilistic inference to be performed efficiently. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol which tackles structure generation and parameter learning of SPNs. Additionally, we provide a protocol for private inference on SPNs, subsequent to training. To preserve the privacy of the participants, we derive our protocol based on secret sharing, which guarantees privacy in the honest-but-curious setting ev…

It's important to note that the two main Scottish independence parties promote a vibrantly pro-immigration, anti-racist narrative.
@… knows this and should make it more clear in the reporting of this story, also at headline level.
Demonising refugees and Muslims is a *unionist* practice.

Here's an editorial about DSA written by two who know it well, including a former board member:
https://archive.ph/ZGSib
Right now Americans are living the nightmare of what happens when one of its major parties gets captured by its lunatic fringe. The last thing we need is for the other major party t…

"Labour has also won every time the Senedd has been contested, as it will be again in May. Yet, if the most recent Wales-wide poll holds good, that is set to change. Plaid will instead be the largest party, just ahead of Reform UK, with Labour third. Though still a minority, Plaid would be in government. In Welsh terms, that would be a political earthquake. Perhaps in Britain-wide terms too"
#UKPol

Un procès est essentiel, mais le financement est crucial pour faire entendre leur voix. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz pour obtenir justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Flight delays could force parties to the shutdown bargaining table (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/flight-delays-shutdown-bargaining-00598848
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p140#a251008p140

Perfectly-Private Analog Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning
Delio Jaramillo-Velez, Charul Rajput, Ragnar Freij-Hollanti, Camilla Hollanti, Alexandre Graell i Amat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08683

Perfectly-Private Analog Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning
In federated learning, multiple parties train models locally and share their parameters with a central server, which aggregates them to update a global model. To address the risk of exposing sensitive data through local models, secure aggregation via secure multiparty computation has been proposed to enhance privacy. At the same time, perfect privacy can only be achieved by a uniform distribution of the masked local models to be aggregated. This raises a problem when working with real valued da…

Robert Spatz, le gourou d’OKC, est toujours en liberté. Au moins un abus est en cours en Espagne. En France, seules six parties civiles se battent pour qu’un mandat d’arrêt international soit enfin délivré.
https://youtu.be/R04H6ht2QU4?si=cjoqHTQjSsS9jmdU

"UN urges nations to submit overdue climate plans 'as soon as possible' ahead of COP30"
#UN #UnitedNations #COP30

UN urges nations to submit overdue climate plans ahead of COP30
Most parties, including the EU, missed the February deadline to submit new climate plans, and pressure is mounting as the UN climate summit approaches.

Podemos's maximalist posture is preventing Spain enacting an arms embargo on Israel. Other parties (Sumar, ERC) agree it's inadequate but say they can then work to strengthen it, e.g. with surveillance at ports.
Un embargo de armas como respuesta a un genocidio

Un embargo de armas como respuesta a un genocidio
El decreto del embargo de armas a Israel recibirá el apoyo de los socios del Gobierno, pero Podemos se niega en el pleno a garantizar su aprobación por considerarlo falso e insuficiente. Álvarez de Toledo utiliza hechos desacreditados sobre el ataque de Hamás en 2023 para atacar al Gobierno

On the CQC Conjecture
Hasan Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08286

On the CQC Conjecture
The CQC conjecture by Schneeloch et al. (Physical Review A 90.6, 2014) asserts that the sum of classical mutual information between two parties obtained by measuring individual systems in two mutually unbiased bases can not exceed their shared quantum mutual information. This remarkable conjecture, which deserves more work, still remains open. In this article, using a result by Coles and Piani (Physical Review A 89.2, 2014), we derive a sufficient condition for which the CQC conjecture holds. W…

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

France starved, Louis and Marie build magnificent buildings, threw fancy parties, and glutted on exotic foods.
Too bad Trump slept through history classes.
It didn’t turn out well for them,
and I hope Trump eventually sees accountability.
https://bsky.app/profile/gerardtb.bsky

Gerard (@gerardtb.bsky.social)
Let him have the bunker. Tear down every Trump building. Flatten Mar-a-Lago. Erase everything he worked for. A siege can last a long time, but eventually it ends. Just make sure he doesn't flee to his master in Russia.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

AWM: Accurate Weight-Matrix Fingerprint for Large Language Models
Boyi Zeng, Lin Chen, Ziwei He, Xinbing Wang, Zhouhan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06738 https://

AWM: Accurate Weight-Matrix Fingerprint for Large Language Models
Protecting the intellectual property of large language models (LLMs) is crucial, given the substantial resources required for their training. Consequently, there is an urgent need for both model owners and third parties to determine whether a suspect LLM is trained from scratch or derived from an existing base model. However, the intensive post-training processes that models typically undergo-such as supervised fine-tuning, extensive continued pretraining, reinforcement learning, multi-modal ex…

2023 elections, the Netherlands: many vote for weird parties hoping they'll do a better job than normal parties. Weird parties argue for half a year, form a coalition, do little and keep on arguing.
Same voters now: we really don't trust politics anymore. Politicians do little and keep arguing.

Cheat-Penalised Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping
Atul Singh Arora, Carl A. Miller, Mauro E. S. Morales, Jamie Sikora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03218 https://arx…

Cheat-Penalised Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping
Coin-flipping is a fundamental task in two-party cryptography where two remote mistrustful parties wish to generate a shared uniformly random bit. While quantum protocols promising near-perfect security exist for weak coin-flipping -- when the parties want opposing outcomes -- it has been shown that they must be inefficient in terms of their round complexity, and it is an open question of how space efficient they can be. In this work, we consider a variant called cheat-penalised weak coin-flipp…

UK purchase of nuclear capable fighter jets puts it in breach of international law (due to its being a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
"The UK became a party to the NPT in 1968
and the Treaty came into force in 1970. In 2025
there are 191 states parties to the NPT. As a
party to a treaty in force the UK is legally bound
by its provisions."
CND-Legal-Opinion-Report-v3.pdf

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Many of the details of the agreement reached after 3 days of indirect talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh remain unclear and challenges of implementing its terms are immense.
But in recent days, negotiators have closed gaps between Hamas and Israel over the details of the first phase of the 21-point plan announced by Trump in the White House last week.
It was not immediately certain whether the parties had made any progress on thornier questions about the futu…

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

"Converting debts into income streams for third parties is the true basis of the finance industry. It's the means by which socially useless intermediaries extract ever-mounting rents from the productive economy" -- @…

"Reform council to ‘rescind’ climate emergency declaration"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Senators from both parties grilled RFK Jr. on vaccines and more (Yuki Noguchi/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5528966/rfk-kennedy-hearing-covid-vaccines-cdc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p110#a250904p110

⚖️ Survivre Š une secte, c’est dur. Obtenir justice, encore plus. L’instruction de l’affaire OKC-Spatz arrive Š un moment clé. Aidons 6 parties civiles Š aller jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-ligne

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📰 Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
#politics

Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
A study of the Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper following the Hillsborough disaster has found that the boycott shaped people's perceptions of political parties and made people more left wing.

Sleepwalking into a fascist hell.
UK now.
#UKPol

George Monbiot (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social)
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

This year's federal budget runs out September 30,
and although lawmakers from both parties have signaled they will reject most of Trump's cuts, it's far from certain that Congress will pass a budget for the next fiscal year before the looming deadline.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has directed NASA managers to make plans to close out missions tagged for cancellation.
Without specific congressional direction, the White House would have a clear hand at imp…

GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
One scientist says it’s like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

Certification of energy-restricted entanglement depth with simple measurements
Carles Roch I Carceller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06726 https://arxiv.org/p…

Certification of energy-restricted entanglement depth with simple measurements
The ability to certify entanglement in multipartite scenarios is crucial for the development of quantum technologies, specially for the realization of large-scale networks. Here, we introduce a method to certify entanglement from sources with limited energy based on a state discrimination game played by multiple distant uncharacerized parties. Our approach is capable of detecting entanglement across all possible bipartitions employing a single, simple and separable measurement setting for all p…

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Cagnotte Juridique | Association Chardons Bleus
Depuis 2015, nous luttons pour la justice contre les dérives sectaires de l’Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC)

Republicans hold a 219-213 majority in the House,
but they could lock in more seats if reapportionments go their way
Normally, redistricting only occurs after the US census counts residents in each state every 10 years.
But a demand from Donald Trump to lock in more Republican-leaning districts in Congress,
together with a changing legal landscape around partisan gerrymandering,
set off a chain of mid-decade reapportionments.
Republicans and Democrats have…

Who does this remind you of?
"Within political parties, the same logic has often reappeared: rally the membership around the leader by creating an “internal other” to be purged — an “other” supposedly conspiring against the very essence of the organisation, which is, in turn, embodied by the leader or ruling clique."
https://

How Democracies Fall Apart
Why the rhetoric of the “enemy within” still threatens democracies across the world.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

📸 2018 : entre deux procès de la secte OKC.
2025 : en Belgique, certaines indemnisations ne sont toujours pas versées.
Et en France ? Le dossier est gelé.
⏳ 8 ans d’attente pour les parties civiles.
🔇 19 audition. 1 mise en examen. 0 arrestation.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/greens-on-track-to-supplant-labour-as-favourite-party-in-london-says-zack-polanski

Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms,
held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape,
& we’re all out of shared norms
& have shredded our last rolls of tape.
“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
h…

Norm Ornstein (@normornstein.bsky.social)
The constitution does not explicitly say that members have to be sworn in by the Speaker. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Un procès est essentiel, mais le financement est crucial pour faire entendre leur voix. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz pour obtenir justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

⚖️ Survivre Š une secte, c’est dur. Obtenir justice, encore plus. L’instruction de l’affaire OKC-Spatz arrive Š un moment clé. Aidons 6 parties civiles Š aller jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-ligne

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⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Cagnotte Juridique | Association Chardons Bleus
Depuis 2015, nous luttons pour la justice contre les dérives sectaires de l’Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC)

Un procès est essentiel, mais le financement est crucial pour faire entendre leur voix. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz pour obtenir justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/