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"You must have a market for interesting jobs, good housing, and a market to switch partners. Because people do that too"
#sovereignity #North

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

Artificial Intelligence Should Genuinely Support Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making To Bridge the Translational Gap
Kacper Sokol, James Fackler, Julia E Vogt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05030

Artificial Intelligence Should Genuinely Support Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making To Bridge the Translational Gap
Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionise medicine, yet its impact remains limited because of the pervasive translational gap. We posit that the prevailing technology-centric approaches underpin this challenge, rendering such systems fundamentally incompatible with clinical practice, specifically diagnostic reasoning and decision making. Instead, we propose a novel sociotechnical conceptualisation of data-driven support tools designed to complement doctors' cognitive and epistemic activ…

Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters
Elvis Rodrigues, Jacob Goldverg, Tevfik Kosar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04117 http…

Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters
Inter-datacenter communication is a significant part of cloud operations and produces a substantial amount of carbon emissions for cloud data centers, where the environmental impact has already been a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a novel carbon-aware temporal data transfer scheduling framework, called LinTS, which promises to significantly reduce the carbon emission of data transfers between cloud data centers. LinTS produces a competitive transfer schedule and makes scaling decisi…

WIRED: There's a very simple pattern to Elon Musk's broken promises https://www.wired.com/story/theres-a-very-simple-pattern-to-elon-musks-broken-promises/ (archived at

There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises
The entrepreneur’s habit of overpromising on deadlines may be frustrating for investors—but for those looking to see whether a Musk pledge will come good, there’s a key phrase to watch out for.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11396 has been replaced.
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Finding Counterfactual Evidences for Node Classification
Counterfactual learning is emerging as an important paradigm, rooted in causality, which promises to alleviate common issues of graph neural networks (GNNs), such as fairness and interpretability. However, as in many real-world application domains where conducting randomized controlled trials is impractical, one has to rely on available observational (factual) data to detect counterfactuals. In this paper, we introduce and tackle the problem of searching for counterfactual evidences for the GNN…

Diagnosing the impact of relativistically intense prepulse on few-picosecond timeframes for short scale length laser-matter interactions
H. M. Huddleston, M. Yeung, C. R. J. Fitzpatrick, J. P. Kennedy, S. Palaniyppan, R. Shah, D. C. Gautier, M. Zepf, J. C. Fernandez, B. M. Hegelich, B. Dromey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02798

Diagnosing the impact of relativistically intense prepulse on few-picosecond timeframes for short scale length laser-matter interactions
With the rapid proliferation of multi-petawatt (MPW) lasers globally, a new era of high-energy density science promises to emerge within the next decade. However, precise control over how light at these ultra-relativistic intensities interacts with matter (especially with solid-density targets) will be crucial to fully realize the cutting-edge scientific advancements and technological breakthroughs that the MPW regime promises to unlock. In this manuscript, we present experimental results, supp…

Authoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
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by Mayur Suresh The impetus for this project stems from a disquiet, felt by so many in different…
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Authoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
by Mayur SureshThe impetus for this project stems from a disquiet, felt by so many in different parts of the world, of the arrival of authoritarian strongmen who had been elected to power. As Kim Scheppele’s influential article tells us, “By now, we know the pattern” of a charismatic leader elected to power, on the back of a wave of popular disenchantment with the state. This leader promises to wipe away the roadblocks that he says have held the country back: established elites, oppos…

For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…

'No Billionaire Left Behind' in Trump Budget Request That Trashes Workers, Struggling Families | Common Dreams
One expert critic said the updated request "confirms once again that the president continues to break his promises to lower families' costs and help people who are struggling to make ends meet."

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Statistical Physics of the Polarised IKKT Matrix Model
The polarised IKKT matrix model is the worldpoint theory of $N$ D-instantons in a background three-form flux of magnitude $Ω$, and promises to be a highly tractable model of holography. The matrix integral can be viewed as a statistical physics partition function with inverse temperature $Ω^4$. At large $Ω$ the model is dominated by a matrix configuration corresponding to a 'polarised' spherical D1-brane. We show that at a critical value of $Ω^2 N$ the model undergoes a first order phase tr…

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation
Jan G\"opfert, Jann M. Weinand, Patrick Kuckertz, Noah Pflugradt, Jochen Lin{\ss}en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00047

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation
Humanity is progressing towards automated product development, a trend that promises faster creation of better products and thus the acceleration of technological progress. However, increasing reliance on non-human agents for this process introduces many risks. This perspective aims to initiate a discussion on these risks and appropriate mitigation strategies. To this end, we outline a set of principles for safer AI-driven product development which emphasize human oversight, accountability, and…

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Demonstration of Quantum-Secure Communications in a Nuclear Reactor
Quantum key distribution (QKD), one of the latest cryptographic techniques, founded on the laws of quantum mechanics rather than mathematical complexity, promises for the first time unconditional secure remote communications. Integrating this technology into the next generation nuclear systems - designed for universal data collection and real-time sharing as well as cutting-edge instrumentation and increased dependency on digital technologies - could provide significant benefits enabling secure…

https://www.hackster.io/news/pyxl-promises-orders-of-magnitude-faster-embedded-python-using-a-python-native-custom-processor-c0e01ddc30eb

On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between
Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw,
and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who has helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite Poland’s role in the Holocaust.
The candidates offer starkly different visions for Poland.
Trzaskowski promises cooperation with the European Union and social changes, such as loosening restrictive abortion laws and allowing civil unions for LGBTQ peo…

Promises made, promises kept
#cartoon #promise

Does Trump's Tariff Make America Great Again? An Empirical Analysis of US-China Trade War Impact on American Business Formation (2018-2025)
Ruiming Min
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00999

Does Trump's Tariff Make America Great Again? An Empirical Analysis of US-China Trade War Impact on American Business Formation (2018-2025)
This study examines whether Donald Trump's tariff policies, particularly the US-China trade war initiated in 2018, delivered on promises to revitalize American manufacturing and create jobs. Using county-level business application data from 2018-2025, we analyze the relationship between tariff implementation and new business formation through linear regression analysis. Our findings reveal a statistically significant positive association between US tariffs on China and American business applica…

I've really enjoyed this miniseries on Houdini in case anyone is looking for something to listen to:
https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/114238312210225412

"Reform UK promises to reverse ban on new North Sea oil drilling if elected"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea #FossilFuels

I think a key reason the AI grift is so devious it it's built on top of an actual product that does have some utility. The grift just promises far more than AI is actually capable of in the foreseeable future.
Previous grifts like crypto and NFTs were entirely vaporware, but when we see AI generated images and text in the wild, it takes a more nuanced understanding to navigate the hype.

I've really enjoyed this miniseries on Houdini in case anyone is looking for something to listen to:
https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/114238312210225412

I think a key reason the AI grift is so devious it it's built on top of an actual product that does have some utility. The grift just promises far more than AI is actually capable of in the foreseeable future.
Previous grifts like crypto and NFTs were entirely vaporware, but when we see AI generated images and text in the wild, it takes a more nuanced understanding to navigate the hype.