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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-the-amazon-political-systems-fail-to-prioritize-the-environment/

In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment
Realizing the goals of sustainable development and environmental conservation in the Pan Amazon will require profound changes in the region’s legal and economic framework. This type of change can only be obtained via the political process. Fortunately, there is broad support within Amazonian nations for a change in the policies that drive deforestation and unsustainable […]

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

Syndicalist unions are fundamentally different from the bureaucratic trade unions that dominate today. Modern unions function as institutional frameworks that negotiate within capitalism, often acting to preserve the system rather than challenge it. They centralize power in hierarchical leadership, limit direct worker control, and prioritize legal contracts and state approval over genuine worker autonomy.
Syndicalism rejects this institutionalized framework. It refuses collective barga…

"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
#Nature #Environment

Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says
Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. senator, and Mary Robinson, former Irish president, disagree. As chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature, a nonprofit organization uniting prominent politicians in support of nature […]

FYI, the closing date for submitting comments on the US Department of Education’s plans to prioritize "patriotic education" in its discretionary grant programs is this Friday, October 17. The American Historical Association has an excellent resource to help folks weigh in! https://www.

🦠 Global initiative launches to prioritize conservation of vital microbial life
#bacteria

Global initiative launches to prioritize conservation of vital microbial life
Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae and archaea (single-celled microorganisms with a bacteria-like structure). They are invisible to the human eye, but they play a huge role, shaping ecosystems, producing food and regulating disease.

Apple shelves Vision Headset revamp to prioritize Meta-like AI glasses https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/10/02/apple-shelves-vision-headset-revamp-to-prioritize-meta-like-ai-glasses/

Apple shelves Vision Headset revamp to prioritize Meta-like AI glasses
The company had been preparing a cheaper, lighter variant of its headset — code-named N100 — for release in 2027.

Instead of going to sleep, I just spent 2 hours writing up, for my own future reference, a random idea I had about how Pascal’s Wager is actually a negotiation.
Ironically, part of the writeup was about when it’s acceptable to prioritize short-term over long-term interests; it didn’t even occur to me I was doing exactly that by staying up late.

Schon im 19. Jahrhundert versteht Samuel Butler, die Maschinen als eine separate evolutionäre Spezies, die mehr an ihrem eigenen Überleben mehr interessiert ist, als am Wohlergehen der Menschen:
> A world where we prioritize the relentless advancement of technology and a universal dependence on it in the name of efficiency is a world where we prioritize a certain political-economic order that is more interested in advancing technologies based on criteria that have little to do with…

On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad
Some notes on what should go in our own Orange Catholic Bible.

"In a major shift, HUD’s plan would direct most of the $3.5 billion in homelessness funds away from Housing First to programs that prioritize work and drug treatment."
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/54oxw

Controlling Intent Expressiveness in Robot Motion with Diffusion Models
Wenli Shi, Clemence Grislain, Olivier Sigaud, Mohamed Chetouani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12370 https://…

Controlling Intent Expressiveness in Robot Motion with Diffusion Models
Legibility of robot motion is critical in human-robot interaction, as it allows humans to quickly infer a robot's intended goal. Although traditional trajectory generation methods typically prioritize efficiency, they often fail to make the robot's intentions clear to humans. Meanwhile, existing approaches to legible motion usually produce only a single "most legible" trajectory, overlooking the need to modulate intent expressiveness in different contexts. In this work, we propose a novel motio…

Visual Stenography: Feature Recreation and Preservation in Sketches of Noisy Line Charts
Rifat Ara Proma, Michael Correll, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11927

Visual Stenography: Feature Recreation and Preservation in Sketches of Noisy Line Charts
Line charts surface many features in time series data, from trends to periodicity to peaks and valleys. However, not every potentially important feature in the data may correspond to a visual feature which readers can detect or prioritize. In this study, we conducted a visual stenography task, where participants re-drew line charts to solicit information about the visual features they believed to be important. We systematically varied noise levels (SNR ~5-30 dB) across line charts to observe ho…

The Senate passes a measure requiring Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US customers over China for advanced AI chip sales, as part of a defense policy bill (Oma Seddiq/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/sena…

Surprising no one (who shares my opinions), the Apple Vision Pro is dead https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-01/apple-shelves-vision-headset-revamp-to-prioritize-meta-like-ai-smart-glasses

It’s striking how dramatically our mindset has shifted in under 30 years. Before the 90s, people were frustrated by the need to buy products they weren’t able to build themselves. Today, despite having unprecedented access to tools, materials, and even electronics development, many people prefer plug-and-play solutions.
In essence, we once valued understanding how things worked. Now, we often prioritize convenience and mental ease. Even remembering a few keyboard shortcuts feels excessi…

HERE WE GO BLYAT https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retirement/

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
Nicky Mol, Luka Peternel, Alessandro Ianniello, Denis Zatyagov, Auke Nachenius, Stephan Balvert, J. Micah Prendergast, Sara Muscolo, Olger Siebinga, Eva Verhoef, Deborah Forster, David A. Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12340

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
The use of robots in industrial settings continues to grow, driven by the need to address complex societal challenges such as labor shortages, aging populations, and ever-increasing production demands. In this abstract, we advocate for (and demonstrate) a transdisciplinary approach when considering robotics in the workplace. Transdisciplinarity emphasizes the integration of academic research with pragmatic expertise and embodied experiential knowledge, that prioritize values such as worker well…

Morris: Selfish to prioritize job over Falcons' effort https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47249027/falcons-raheem-morris-prioritizing-remaining-games-not-job-status

Sources: Apple has shelved development of a cheaper, lighter Vision Pro variant planned for 2027 to prioritize smart glasses that can rival products from Meta (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

On World Mental Health Day, Raiders share how they balance life and football https://www.raiders.com/news/world-mental-health-day-raiders-share-how-they-balance-life-and-football

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

If Instagram switching over to only reels then @… is going to expload in signups again.
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-…

Meta updates Reels on Facebook to prioritize showing fresher and more-relevant content, and adds AI search suggestions and friend bubbles like on Instagram (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/fac

Facebook's Algorithm Update Aims to Show You Newer Reels You'll Actually Like, Even if It's AI
Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it.

Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09…

Detection of Chagas Disease from the ECG: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2025
Matthew A. Reyna (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Zuzana Koscova (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Jan Pavlus (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Soheil Saghafi (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), James Weigle (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory…

Detection of Chagas Disease from the ECG: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2025
Objective: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection that is endemic to South America, Central America, and, more recently, the U.S., primarily transmitted by insects. Chronic Chagas disease can cause cardiovascular diseases and digestive problems. Serological testing capacities for Chagas disease are limited, but Chagas cardiomyopathy often manifests in ECGs, providing an opportunity to prioritize patients for testing and treatment. Approach: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2025 invites …

Guyana brings solar power to Indigenous village, part of larger plan to prioritize Amerindian communities in national development. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Guyana commissions solar grid for Indigenous village
A remote village in western Guyana is set to benefit from round the clock power following the commissioning of a solar grid with a combined capacity of 217.4 kW.

On World Mental Health Day, Raiders share how they balance life and football https://www.raiders.com/news/world-mental-health-day-raiders-share-how-they-balance-life-and-football

Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
Rabiya Khalid, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04192 https://

Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
The growing electricity demand and increased use of smart appliances are placing new pressures on power grids, making efficient energy management more important than ever. The existing energy management systems often prioritize system efficiency (balanced energy demand and supply) at the expense of user comfort. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a novel decentralized multi-agent coordination-based demand-side management system. The proposed system enables individual agents to coordinat…

In a season slipping away, Commanders are right to prioritize Jayden Daniels' health -- now and for the future

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/commanders-jayden-daniels-inj…

Vulnerability Analysis Evaluating Bilevel Optimal Power Flow Approaches for Multiple Load Cases
Eric T\"onges, Martin Braun, Philipp H\"artel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01073

Vulnerability Analysis Evaluating Bilevel Optimal Power Flow Approaches for Multiple Load Cases
This work presents two methodologies to enhance vulnerability assessment in power systems using bilevel attacker-defender network interdiction models. First, we introduce a systematic evaluation procedure for comparing different optimal power flow formulations in the lower-level problem. We demonstrate the procedure for a comparison of the widely used DC approximation and a linearized AC optimal power flow model. Second, we propose a novel scoring methodology to identify and prioritize critical…

BofA Securities: Blinkit holds over 50% share of India's quick commerce market, as rivals Zepto and Instamart prioritize profitability over aggressive expansion (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economict…

Blinkit tops quick commerce with over 50% market share, set to gain more: BofA
Blinkit has solidified its dominance in India's quick commerce sector, now commanding over 50% market share, according to BofA Securities. This growth comes as rivals like Zepto and Instamart prioritize profitability over aggressive expansion. With reduced competition and sustained user demand, Blinkit is poised for further gains in net merchandise value and gross merchandise value.

In retirement, true wealth is indeed found in our health. 💪 While financial stability matters, it's well-being that allows us to savor the golden years. I prioritize daily walks and physiotherapy for physical and mental vitality. What do you do to stay energized? Share your insights – I'm eager to learn!

Cowboys take measures to save players' bodies ahead of tough stretch https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/20/cowboys-taking-care-players-bodies-thanksgiving-stretch-game…

Santa Barbara’s future vitality depends on making space for younger generations who want to build their lives here
— and a walkable, bike-friendly downtown offers immense value for renters, service workers, parents, and young professionals alike.
We cannot rely on big, national retail chains to anchor State Street
Bringing cars back will just bring back cruising, since parking has always been on nearby streets and in garages.
A walkable downtown supported by efficien…

Sources: Sam Altman is on a global tour since September, including UAE and East Asia, seeking funding and urging companies like TSMC to prioritize OpenAI orders (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sam-alt

Length-Matching Routing for Programmable Photonic Circuits Using Best-First Strategy
Xiaoke Wang, Dirk Stroobandt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23463 https://…

Length-Matching Routing for Programmable Photonic Circuits Using Best-First Strategy
In the realm of programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs), precise wire length control is crucial for the performance of on-chip programmable components such as optical ring resonators, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and optical true time-delay lines. Unlike conventional routing algorithms that prioritize shortest-path solutions, these photonic components require exact-length routing to maintain the desired optical properties. To address these challenges, this paper presents different l…

QUINTA: Reflexive Sensibility For Responsible AI Research and Data-Driven Processes
Alicia E. Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

QUINTA: Reflexive Sensibility For Responsible AI Research and Data-Driven Processes
As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continues to prioritize fairness and the concern for historically marginalized communities, the importance of intersectionality in AI research has gained significant recognition. However, few studies provide practical guidance on how researchers can effectively incorporate intersectionality into critical praxis. In response, this paper presents a comprehensive framework grounded in critical reflexivity as intersectional prax…

Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/apple-now-controls-a…

Apple takes control of all core chips in iPhone Air with new architecture to prioritize AI
Apple is quietly taking control of all the core chips in iPhone with new architecture to prioritize AI workloads on its most advanced chip, the A19 Pro.

What do the Giants need after latest Abdul Carter antics, Jaxson Dart recklessness? How about a real leader?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-do

Static or temporal? Semantic scene simplification to aid wayfinding in immersive simulations of bionic vision https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10813

Explicit modelling of subject dependency in BCI decoding
Michele Romani, Francesco Paissan, Andrea Foss\`a, Elisabetta Farella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23247 https://

Explicit modelling of subject dependency in BCI decoding
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) suffer from high inter-subject variability and limited labeled data, often requiring lengthy calibration phases. In this work, we present an end-to-end approach that explicitly models the subject dependency using lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) conditioned on the subject's identity. Our method integrates hyperparameter optimization strategies that prioritize class imbalance and evaluates two conditioning mechanisms to adapt pre-trained models to…

Learning to Rank with Top-$K$ Fairness
Boyang Zhang, Quanqi Hu, Mingxuan Sun, Qihang Lin, Tianbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18067 https://arxiv.org/p…

Learning to Rank with Top-$K$ Fairness
Fairness in ranking models is crucial, as disparities in exposure can disproportionately affect protected groups. Most fairness-aware ranking systems focus on ensuring comparable average exposure for groups across the entire ranked list, which may not fully address real-world concerns. For example, when a ranking model is used for allocating resources among candidates or disaster hotspots, decision-makers often prioritize only the top-$K$ ranked items, while the ranking beyond top-$K$ becomes l…

Identifying Players the Raiders Can Live Without Next Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-identifying-players-can-live-without-next-season

Multidata Causal Discovery for Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecasting
Saranya Ganesh S., Frederick Iat-Hin Tam, Milton S. Gomez, Marie McGraw, Mark DeMaria, Kate Musgrave, Jakob Runge, Tom Beucler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02050

Multidata Causal Discovery for Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecasting
Improving statistical forecasts of Atlantic hurricane intensity is limited by complex nonlinear interactions and difficulty in identifying relevant predictors. Conventional methods prioritize correlation or fit, often overlooking confounding variables and limiting generalizability to unseen tropical storms. To address this, we leverage a multidata causal discovery framework with a replicated dataset based on Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) using ERA5 meteorological rea…

Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/ai-super-pac-anthropic.html

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.

Building Information Models to Robot-Ready Site Digital Twins (BIM2RDT): An Agentic AI Safety-First Framework
Reza Akhavian, Mani Amani, Johannes Mootz, Robert Ashe, Behrad Beheshti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20705

Building Information Models to Robot-Ready Site Digital Twins (BIM2RDT): An Agentic AI Safety-First Framework
The adoption of cyber-physical systems and jobsite intelligence that connects design models, real-time site sensing, and autonomous field operations can dramatically enhance digital management in the construction industry. This paper introduces BIM2RDT (Building Information Models to Robot-Ready Site Digital Twins), an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) framework designed to transform static Building Information Modeling (BIM) into dynamic, robot-ready digital twins (DTs) that prioritize safe…

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
Leon Hannig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Annika Bush (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Meltem Aksoy (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Steffen Becker (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Greta Ontrup (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
https://

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
As the use of LLM chatbots by students and researchers becomes more prevalent, universities are pressed to develop AI strategies. One strategy that many universities pursue is to customize pre-trained LLM as-a-service (LLMaaS). While most studies on LLMaaS chatbots prioritize technical adaptations, we focus on psychological effects of user-salient customizations, such as interface changes. We assume that such customizations influence users' perception of the system and are therefore important i…

Renner's 2026 NFL mock draft 4.0: Bills add WR help for Josh Allen; Texans prioritize protecting C.J. Stroud

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-thin-qb-clas…

Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Zachary Robertson, Ziv Epstein, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael S. Bernstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14434

Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
While social media feed rankings are primarily driven by engagement signals rather than any explicit value system, the resulting algorithmic feeds are not value-neutral: engagement may prioritize specific individualistic values. This paper presents an approach for social media feed value alignment. We adopt Schwartz's theory of Basic Human Values -- a broad set of human values that articulates complementary and opposing values forming the building blocks of many cultures -- and we implement an …