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Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…

Trump administration announces new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. This initiative aims to make accessing health records and monitoring wellness easier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to discuss this at an event with leaders from companies like Google and Amazon. The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. While officials say patients must opt in and data will be secure,…

Found an old review, really loved working with New Noveta back in 2019:
"The two young performers get straight to work making the attendees at the edges of the room feel uncomfortable, grasping each other's bodies, screaming and crying, while brandishing what appears to be a giant folding fan made of 2ft blades. The pair chase each other on foot through the crowd, pushing people in all directions and never looking anything other than distressed, disturbed or downright terrified…

#China baut seine globale Führungsrolle in der #Energiewende rasant aus.
Während Peking massiv in #Solarenergie,

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-…

iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie | TechCrunch
However well-received the film may be, iPhone users don't necessarily want their built-in utilities, like their digital wallet, marketing to them.

NFL Takeaways: How Jordan Love Is Taking His Game to the Next Level https://www.si.com/nfl/takeaways-jordan-love-is-taking-his-game-next-level

Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-…

iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing 'F1' movie | TechCrunch
However well-received the film may be, iPhone users don't necessarily want their built-in utilities, like their digital wallet, marketing to them.

Software Engineering for Large Language Models: Research Status, Challenges and the Road Ahead
Hongzhou Rao, Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23762

Software Engineering for Large Language Models: Research Status, Challenges and the Road Ahead
The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has redefined artificial intelligence (AI), pushing the boundaries of AI research and enabling unbounded possibilities for both academia and the industry. However, LLM development faces increasingly complex challenges throughout its lifecycle, yet no existing research systematically explores these challenges and solutions from the perspective of software engineering (SE) approaches. To fill the gap, we systematically analyze research status …

On The Road - To Xi’An 🪭
在路上 - 去西安 🪭
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

If anyone has some sorta "#gender #ideology", it's those pushing for social norms such as #conformity to "only two genders, and this is your

Structural and thermodynamic stability of hexagonal-diamond $\text{Si}_{1 - x - y}\,\text{Ge}_{x}\,\text{B}_{y}$ alloys
Marc T\'unica, Francesca Chiodi, Michele Amato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23741

Structural and thermodynamic stability of hexagonal-diamond $\text{Si}_{1 - x - y}\,\text{Ge}_{x}\,\text{B}_{y}$ alloys
Pushing dopant concentrations beyond the solubility limit in semiconductors -- a process known as hyperdoping -- has been demonstrated as an effective strategy for inducing superconductivity in cubic-diamond Si and SiGe materials. Additionally, previous studies have reported that several polytypes of Si may exhibit a type-I superconducting state under high pressure. In this work, we employ ground-state Density Functional Theory simulations to investigate the effects of both low and high B dopin…

Cowboys' Trevon Diggs doesn't feel like he has 'any limitations' after training on his own, pushing for Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
#AmReading

Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a…

How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/trump-kennedy-alliance-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p68#a250829p68

The Russians are PUSHING in the East! Ukraine is fighting BACK #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/the-russians-are-pushing-in.html

Integrating Maneuverable Planning and Adaptive Control for Robot Cart-Pushing under Disturbances
Zhe Zhang, Peijia Xie, Zhirui Sun, Bingyi Xia, Bi-Ke Zhu, Jiankun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18410

Integrating Maneuverable Planning and Adaptive Control for Robot Cart-Pushing under Disturbances
Precise and flexible cart-pushing is a challenging task for mobile robots. The motion constraints during cart-pushing and the robot's redundancy lead to complex motion planning problems, while variable payloads and disturbances present complicated dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel planning and control framework for flexible whole-body coordination and robust adaptive control. Our motion planning method employs a local coordinate representation and a novel kinematic model to solve a non…

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--N. Korea's IT worker scheme ensnared a troubled woman,
--Iran is harvesting millions of airline passengers' data,
--Myanmar is isolated in its digital tyranny,
--Pushing the UK to abandon its encryption backdoor,
--The racist hacker …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/19/25
N. Korea's IT worker scheme ensnared a troubled woman, Iran is harvesting millions of airline passengers' data, Myanmar is isolated in its digital tyranny, Pushing the UK to abandon its encryption backdoor, The racist hacker attacking universities, Making quantum cryptography stronger

Pushing Blocks without Fixed Blocks via Checkable Gizmos: Push-1 is PSPACE-Complete
MIT Hardness Group, Josh Brunner, Lily Chung, Erik D. Demaine, Jenny Diomidova, Della Hendrickson, Jayson Lynch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19759

Pushing Blocks without Fixed Blocks via Checkable Gizmos: Push-1 is PSPACE-Complete
We prove PSPACE-completeness of Push-1: given a rectangular grid of 1 x 1 cells, each possibly occupied by a movable block, can a robot move from a specified location to another, given the ability to push up to one block at a time? In particular, we remove the need for fixed (unmovable) blocks in a previous result (FUN 2022), which seems to require a completely different reduction. This fundamental model of block pushing, introduced in 1999, abstracts the mechanics of many video games. It was s…

This is really wild: Microsoft is pushing more and more #spyware features into everyday products to steal all of your data:
"#Copilot #Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall [...] is de…

Proposed Trade Has Cowboys Land Projected $116 Million Star for Micah Parsons https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-trade-rumors-proposals-bengals/?adt_ei=[email]

This from the Israeli government, supported by the West, including my country. ("But we asked them to stop the violence" doesn't count).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-israel-pushing-to-w…

Thanks to you, we’ve raised €5134 ! Our goal: €12,439 to keep pushing this legal battle forward. Thank you for your generosity! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/donate

While the nation faces record housing unaffordability and homelessness, HUD is pushing massive cuts and a move to Virginia - Streetlight
https://streetlightnews.org/hud-headquarters-move/

The result is a two-party system where the parties are going at cross purposes: one going full naked stinking fascist, and the other not pushing back in the opposite direction but just…pushing sideways, wishing for the resurrection of a party split that’s gone.
This may explain in part the endless appeal of the centrist mush-meal pitch: “We just need a party that meets these poor benighted Trump voters with common-sense answers to kitchen table issues!” That sounds like the way you win the 1932 presidential election! Yay!
7/

Pushing the hybrid approach to low beam energies with dynamic initial conditions from hadronic transport
Renan G\'oes-Hirayama, Joscha Egger, Zuzana Paul\'inyov\'a, Iurii Karpenko, Hannah Elfner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19389

Pushing the hybrid approach to low beam energies with dynamic initial conditions from hadronic transport
While hybrid approaches of relativistic hydrodynamics+transport have been well established for the dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions at high beam energies, moving to lower beam energies is challenging. In this work, we propose dynamic initial conditions for the viscous hydrodynamic evolution in heavy-ion collisions at low to intermediate beam energies. They are comprised of core hadrons based on the local energy density during the pre-equilibrium hadronic evolution. The SMASH-vHLLE …

The Trump administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/poli…

Inside the Global Deal-Making Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations
The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.

Protect existing claimants, punish future ones.
That will guarantee a future Labour Govt.
I can't decide whether the most conservative Civil Service since before the Second World War is passively pushing back on the Labour Govt or whether the Govt is stupid all on its own.
#UKPolitics

Cybroc: Cyborgizing Broccoli for Longevity
Ke Huang, Yue Zhou, Xi He, Weibo Chen, Botao Amber Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Cybroc: Cyborgizing Broccoli for Longevity
Cybroc is a series of kinetic art installations exploring the recent proliferating populist longevity activism through the satirical cyborgization of broccoli. The artwork augments the symbol of health food-broccoli-with prosthetic limbs to perform so-called longevity-enhancing exercises such as cold plunges, treadmill running, brachiation (arm-swinging), sled pushing, etc.-all simulations of primal human survival tasks reframed as modern fitness routines. Despite its mechanical augmentations, …

Pushing the limits of eccentricity in planet-disc interactions
Callum W. Fairbairn, Alexander J. Dittmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19917 https://

Pushing the limits of eccentricity in planet-disc interactions
Modelling the gravitational interaction between an eccentric perturber and a differentially shearing gas disc is a longstanding problem with various astrophysical applications, ranging from the evolution of planetary systems to the migration of black holes embedded in AGN discs. Recent work has promoted the use of a global, linear, modal approach for calculating the excited wake and the resulting feedback on the perturber's orbital evolution. In this work we perform a complementary suite of tar…

Pushing the Complexity Boundaries of Fixed-Point Equations: Adaptation to Contraction and Controlled Expansion
Jelena Diakonikolas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17698

Pushing the Complexity Boundaries of Fixed-Point Equations: Adaptation to Contraction and Controlled Expansion
Fixed-point equations with Lipschitz operators have been studied for more than a century, and are central to problems in mathematical optimization, game theory, economics, and dynamical systems, among others. When the Lipschitz constant of the operator is larger than one (i.e., when the operator is expansive), it is well known that approximating fixed-point equations becomes computationally intractable even in basic finite-dimensional settings. In this work, we aim to push these complexity boun…

Zach Charbonnet pushing Kenneth Walker III for timeshare in Seahawks backfield https://www.nfl.com/news/zach-charbonnet-pushing-kenneth-walker-iii-for-timeshare-in-seahawks-backfield

Lewd, crude and politically astute: South Park’s history of controversy https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/26/south-park-history-controversy-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-push-bills-stop-government-weather-modification-chemtrails-rcna220045
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p32#a250729p32

Please watch this excellent TV documentary. The anti-medical lunatics are now in charge in the USA -RFK Jr is not just an ill-educated crank. He's killing people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002f2c4/panoram…

Panorama - Cancer Conspiracy Theories: Why Did Our Sister Die?
Marianna Spring investigates the rise of health conspiracy theories. Are social media companies’ algorithms pushing potentially harmful content at vulnerable patients?

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff pushing to lift energy sanctions on Russia, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-pushing.html

"Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report"
#Droughts #Climate #ClimateChange

@…: Reform is spewing more lies. This time it’s using attacks against women as a cover for attacks on migrants. We can’t let it stand. Email Reform. #Goodlawproject

Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants
Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back it up. Reform MP Sarah Pochin suggested that migrants have a “warped view of their right to sexually assault women”. She claimed that men from “predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan” hold a “medieval view of women’s rights” and that “women are at risk of sexual assaul…

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

Just one of the many horrible and stupid errors the Democrats have made in the past 10 years was pushing this man out of the Presidential race.
https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/114724982697749746

Dear old Violet.
She'll be turning 13 in October, so she's kind of on borrowed time for a greyhound. She seems to have lost most of her vision now and is underweight, though her appetite is still huge and she still loves her walks.
She was once a terror for the local cats and squirrels but now if they remain still she doesn't spot them. She still sniffs every place that she remembers them to have been.

"more than half of the world’s food production will be at risk of failure in the next 25 years"
#ClimateEmergency
https://www.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Tuesday that he believes there is a
“legal pathway” for Democrats to present new congressional district maps directly to voters on a statewide ballot,
without input from the state’s independent redistricting commission.
Such a move, he suggested, would allow the state to counter Republican efforts to tilt next year’s midterm election by pushing redistricting measures that favor the GOP in conservative states such as Texas.
If succes…

California's top prosecutor floats path to boost Democrats in Congress
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Tuesday that he believes he has found a sound legal strategy to ask voters to tear up congressional boundaries created by the state’s independent redistricting commission.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Spirit Award:
🎵 Pushing Forward
#SpiritAward
https://spiritaward.bandcamp.com/track/pushing-forward
https://open.spotify.com/track/2y5tHu3cPcRYUMQxcn4TW0

Payment Processors Are Pushing AI Porn Off Its Biggest Platforms https://www.404media.co/payment-processors-are-pushing-ai-porn-off-its-biggest-platforms/

Yes, Google, I definitely need to make an "engaging video with AI” for my document of paid ad performance metrics and projections.
This is totally, definitely, indubitably a legitimate use case for a product that you're pushing on your users. *heavy sacrasm*

I’ve got this great therapist who is really pushing me to see through C’s bullshit. I’m seeing Cs actions and behaviour much more clearly now that I have that second perspective. I called out Cs inaction on seeking appropriate #mentalhealth support yesterday and she responded by shouting at me and going off to sulk. In the past that sort of response would have cowed me, but not anymore. S…

@… Me too! It is, broadly, the right move for a lot of people.
But for all Apple’s talk about privacy, they don’t seem interesting in pushing the state of the art in tracking prevention *at all*.

Welcome, #UK #publichealth, to the 1990s. The last kids where I grew up (Ontario, Canada) to not receive the #chickenpox vaccine as part of the standard childhood regimen are pushing 40 by n…

People complain about Windows pushing logging in to a Microsoft account, and I'm one of them, but on my work mac I refuse to sign in to the app store I swear I get a pop up multiple times a day to sign in to the fucking app store. no fuck you apple.

Pushing the Limits of Frequency Analysis in Leakage Abuse Attacks
Nathaniel Moyer, Charalampos Papamanthou, Evgenios Kornaropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11563 https://

Pushing the Limits of Frequency Analysis in Leakage Abuse Attacks
Searchable encryption (SE) is the most scalable cryptographic primitive for searching on encrypted data. Typical SE constructions often allow access-pattern leakage, revealing which encrypted records are retrieved in the server's responses. All the known generic cryptanalyses assume either that the queries are issued uniformly at random or that the attacker observes the search-pattern leakage. It remains unclear what can be reconstructed when using only the access-pattern leakage and knowledge …

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
- When I broke my ankle last year, I had no idea how much it would affect me -
#creativity #inspiration

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Yay, @… made it so :gitannex: #gitAnnex pushes the current branch first (not the git-annex or synced/* branches). This is awesome when you want to push-to-create a local repo to your @…

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed "EU-style" regulation is "bad for users and bad for developers", "undermines" privacy and security, and "hampers" innovation (Chris Vallance/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgj9kjmvzzo

Apple warns UK against introducing tougher tech regulation
The iPhone maker is pushing back against proposed changes required by the UK competition watchdog

Brian Schottenheimer 'not pushing the panic button' after second preseason loss https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-not-pushing-the-panic-button-after-second-preseason-loss

Lately I've started being mischievous towards normals who have the perceptiveness of an average smartphone user.
When I'm in an Elf II from Koleje Wielkopolskie and I happen to be the first person at the doors, I push the door opening button early. Then I just stand there and wait for the doors to open, while people behind me start panicking that nobody's pushing the button.
Of course it's highlighted as already pressed the whole time.
#rail

You know, it's funny. I just read about someone in DC saying we had too many federal holidays. I know she's going for a state declaration, not a federal holiday. I just think the timing is amusing. #Pennsylvania
https://www.…

Pennsylvania lawmaker pushes "Day of the Bible" resolution based on historical myth
From pushing religion in schools to denying climate change, Rep. Stephanie Borowicz is on a holy mission—truth be damned

Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet pushing Kenneth Walker III for bigger role entering third year: 'He's just a stud'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

CXL-GPU: Pushing GPU Memory Boundaries with the Integration of CXL Technologies
Donghyun Gouk, Seungkwan Kang, Seungjun Lee, Jiseon Kim, Kyungkuk Nam, Eojin Ryu, Sangwon Lee, Dongpyung Kim, Junhyeok Jang, Hanyeoreum Bae, Myoungsoo Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15601

CXL-GPU: Pushing GPU Memory Boundaries with the Integration of CXL Technologies
This work introduces a GPU storage expansion solution utilizing CXL, featuring a novel GPU system design with multiple CXL root ports for integrating diverse storage media (DRAMs and/or SSDs). We developed and siliconized a custom CXL controller integrated at the hardware RTL level, achieving two-digit nanosecond roundtrip latency, the first in the field. This study also includes speculative read and deterministic store mechanisms to efficiently manage read and write operations to hide the endp…

One of the reasons I love FOSS and small commercial developers is that they don’t have teams of quasi-competitive coders and/or “product managers” who have formal incentives to make visible changes to software
E.g. Apple keeps changing their decor with apparently no real goal or concept of there being objectively better or worse visual styles. Someone made Liquid Glass & probably got a bonus for doing so. Quality of UX be damned, the look must always be fresh & new.

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right. Between the illegible glass and the tab bar that disappears on scroll, I honestly have no idea who can take a look at this and say "Yes, that'll do it. That's good." Liquid Glass is a mess so far, *especially* on iOS. Actually pushing me to use apps without Liquid Glass.

We need this to gain more widespread adoption asap. PayPal is heavily pushing shops and restaurants to offer their Payment method. This must not be accepted as they are evil fuckers. https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115065835725739378

Pushing the Performance of Synthetic Speech Detection with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks and Self-Supervised Learning Models
Tuan Dat Phuong, Long-Vu Hoang, Huy Dat Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14153

Pushing the Performance of Synthetic Speech Detection with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks and Self-Supervised Learning Models
Recent advancements in speech synthesis technologies have led to increasingly advanced spoofing attacks, posing significant challenges for automatic speaker verification systems. While systems based on self-supervised learning (SSL) models, particularly the XLSR-Conformer model, have demonstrated remarkable performance in synthetic speech detection, there remains room for architectural improvements. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that replaces the traditional Multi-Layer Perceptron …

"We are facing a hard battle against the clear enemy. Its name is greed. Greed that sows doubt, denies science, distorts truth, rewards corruption and destroys life for profit."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFyh7Rbg7

Channel 4 News on Instagram: ""Powerful interests" and "greed" are pushing the planet to a climate "tipping point", says United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the third UN Ocean Conference in France. #Climatechange #Climate #UnitedNations #Channel4News #C4News"
1,896 likes, 118 comments - channel4news on June 10, 2025: ""Powerful interests" and "greed" are pushing the planet to a climate "tipping point", says United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the third UN Ocean Conference in France. #Climatechange #Climate #UnitedNations #Channel4News #C4News".

John King exits Senate race amid push by Kemp to shape the field (Greg Bluestein/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2025/07/kemp-pushing-dooley-senate-bid-in-a-behind-the-scene-attempt-to-shape-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p104#a250724p104

'Unconstitutional': Trump under fire for pushing jail time for flag burning - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-flag-burning/

See, this is another problem with the chatbot bullshit. Here, an OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to 'subhuman' men saying they won't be able to find chicks no matter how much confidence they fake.
Dudes, let me tell you, this is TOTAL bullshit. I mean, if I can find a wife, ANYONE can. 😂 The incel bullshit is so sad. It's all lies, they're believing all these lies.

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

Does using machine learning solve our problem of p-hacking and HARKing or do we have the same problems as with statistical tests and models?
https://digiresacademy.kit.com/posts/is-machine-learning-and-ai-solving-the-problem-of-p-hacking

Non-normal Dynamics on Non-reciprocal Networks: Reactivity and Effective Dimensionality in Neural Circuits
Anna Poggialini, Serena Di Santo, Pablo Villegas, Andrea Gabrielli, Miguel A. Mu\~noz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19127

Non-normal Dynamics on Non-reciprocal Networks: Reactivity and Effective Dimensionality in Neural Circuits
Non-reciprocal interactions are a defining feature of many complex systems, biological, ecological, and technological, often pushing them far from equilibrium and enabling rich dynamical responses. These asymmetries can arise at multiple levels: locally, in the dynamics of individual units, and globally, in the topology of their interactions. In this work, we investigate how these two forms of non-reciprocity interact in networks of neuronal populations. At the local level, each population is m…

Pushing the Boundaries of Immersion and Storytelling: A Technical Review of Unreal Engine
Oleksandra Sobchyshak, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08142

Pushing the Boundaries of Immersion and Storytelling: A Technical Review of Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine is a platform that has influenced immersive storytelling and virtual reality (VR) through its advanced features and diverse applications. This paper provides an in-depth technical review of Unreal Engine. It analyzes its key innovations in creating hyper-realistic environments and emotionally engaging narratives, with significant applications in gaming, virtual production, education, cultural preservation, and healthcare. The findings of this article highlight Unreal Engine's tran…

Brian Schottenheimer 'not pushing the panic button' after second preseason loss https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-not-pushing-the-panic-button-after-second-preseason-loss

Large-Scale Linear Energy System Optimization: A Systematic Review on Parallelization Strategies via Decomposition
Lars Hadidi (Forschungszentrum J\"ulich GmbH), Leonard G\"oke (ETH Zurich), Maximilian Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum J\"ulich GmbH), Mario Klostermeier (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau), Shima Sasanpour (DLR German Aerospace Center), Tim Varelmann (Bluebird Optimization), Vassilios Yfantis (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau), Jochen Lin{\ss}en (Forschungszentrum J\"u…

Large-Scale Linear Energy System Optimization: A Systematic Review on Parallelization Strategies via Decomposition
As renewable energy integration, sector coupling, and spatiotemporal detail increase, energy system optimization models grow in size and complexity, often pushing solvers to their performance limits. This systematic review explores parallelization strategies that can address these challenges. We first propose a classification scheme for linear energy system optimization models, covering their analytical focus, mathematical structure, and scope. We then review parallel decomposition methods, fin…

Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…

"‘A defining moment’: UN court to deliver historic ruling on countries’ climate obligations"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

World court to rule on countries’ duty to fight climate change
The case has been dubbed a ‘David versus Goliath’ battle, with vulnerable nations pushing for a more robust legal framework for climate action.

Are Companies Taking AI Risks Seriously? A Systematic Analysis of Companies' AI Risk Disclosures in SEC 10-K forms
Lucas G. Uberti-Bona Marin, Bram Rijsbosch, Gerasimos Spanakis, Konrad Kollnig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19313

Are Companies Taking AI Risks Seriously? A Systematic Analysis of Companies' AI Risk Disclosures in SEC 10-K forms
As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly central to corporate strategies, concerns over its risks are growing too. In response, regulators are pushing for greater transparency in how companies identify, report and mitigate AI-related risks. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) repeatedly warned companies to provide their investors with more accurate disclosures of AI-related risks; recent enforcement and litigation against companies' misleading AI claims reinforce thes…

Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/silicon-valley-big-tech-tax-benefit

Silicon Valley is pushing revival of game-changing tax benefit for startups
This could change the math for a slew of startups, and even Big Tech.

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10 villages in a week: Ukraine liberates Novomykhailivka and pushes Russian forces back near Zelenyi Hai: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/villages-in-a-week-ukraine.html

Pushing the Limits of Safety: A Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025
Zonghao Ying, Siyang Wu, Run Hao, Peng Ying, Shixuan Sun, Pengyu Chen, Junze Chen, Hao Du, Kaiwen Shen, Shangkun Wu, Jiwei Wei, Shiyuan He, Yang Yang, Xiaohai Xu, Ke Ma, Qianqian Xu, Qingming Huang, Shi Lin, Xun Wang, Changting Lin, Meng Han, Yilei Jiang, Siqi Lai, Yaozhi Zheng, Yifei Song, Xiangyu Yue, Zonglei Jing, Tianyuan Zhang, Zhilei Zhu, Aishan Liu, Jiakai Wang, Siyuan Liang, Xianglong Kong, Hainan Li, …

Pushing the Limits of Safety: A Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled transformative advancements across diverse applications but remain susceptible to safety threats, especially jailbreak attacks that induce harmful outputs. To systematically evaluate and improve their safety, we organized the Adversarial Testing & Large-model Alignment Safety Grand Challenge (ATLAS) 2025}. This technical report presents findings from the competition, which involved 86 teams testing MLLM vulnerabilities via adversarial image-…

Trump disavows supporters pushing Jeffrey Epstein 'bulls--': 'I don't want their support anymore!' (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-disavows-supporters-pushing-jeffrey-epstein-bulls-dont-want-supp-rcna219078
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p128#a250716p128

How top Hollywood executives are pushing Gov. Gavin Newsom to expand California's film and TV program from $330M to $750M, seeking to halt a production exodus (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

How Hollywood Heavyweights Hounded Gavin Newsom for a $750 Million Lifeline
In Sacramento, A-listers delicately push to expedite a bulked-up tax incentive to halt a production exodus.

Minds behind 'Madden NFL 26' pushing for lifelike football realism -- and thinking bigger than gaming https://www.nfl.com/news/minds-behind-madden-nfl-26-pushing-for-lifelike-football-realism-and-thinking-bigger-than…

The irony of Trump’s signature tax legislation:
Many of its biggest beneficiaries fiercely oppose the president
— and oppose policies he is pushing that will make them richer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/25/trump-tax-law-rich-li…

They’re rich. They’re anti-Trump. And they don’t want their big tax cut.
Many of the biggest beneficiaries of the GOP tax law say they are getting millions of dollars they don’t want or need.

“The net worth of the average Black family is not even $5,000, (and) by 2030, we're headed towards zero net worth”
‘That’s a lie!’ CEO shut down on CNN after pushing false claims on Black wealth - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/economy-2673913214/

Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: 'There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere' (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/maggie-haberman-says-pushing-back-on-trump-risky-for-dems-there-is-a-crime-problem-everywhere/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p86#a250813p86

I imagined that when autocracy came to other countries that institutions,
especially press institutions,
fought back until it became really dangerous to do so.
Here in many instances it has seemed more like Trump was pushing on an open door
–like they were all eager to sell their souls to the Devil.
-- David Menschel

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Q&A with Ashokan Studios' Justin Wells on making "high quality" conservative content, the second season of his doc about Trump's campaign and second term, more (Peter Kiefer/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…

Meet the Michael Moore of the MAGA-verse
Banished from Fox News with his boss Tucker Carlson, Justin Wells is back with a buzzy Trump documentary and a button-pushing new production company that wants to create “quality content for conservatives.”

Liberals often struggle against these populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism, which carries much less appeal. Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy.
— The Folksy Outsider. Pushing against the boundaries of written and unwritten norms is a standard performative element in the populist toolbox, establishing the populist leader as a folksy outsider disrespected by liberal elites.
We can expect Trump to continue …

Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck, instead of a traditional Quest 4, to ship in 2026 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-prioritizing-puffin-for-2026-pushing-out-quest-4-to-2…

Meta Prioritizing Ultra-Light Headset With Puck Over Traditional Quest 4
Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, and might not ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027.

2nd-year UDFA with huge bonus may be shaking up Cowboys starting lineup during minicamp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/…

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Medicaid Work Requirements Have Mostly Failed. The GOP Is Still Pushing Them. (Jeanne Whalen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-medicaid-work-requirement-push-d97170e9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p71#a250621p71

A coalition of European Union countries is pushing to bar Russian citizens who participated in the war against Ukraine from entering the Schengen Area, citing serious security concerns.
The call comes as Russia increased its hybrid operations targeting the European Union.
EU security agencies have repeatedly warned of Russian-linked sabotage operations, including arson attacks, orchestrated by Moscow as part of hybrid warfare strategies.
Interior ministers from the Baltic …

Baltics, Nordics, Poland propose Schengen ban for Russians who fought in Ukraine
"There are hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens who have fought against Ukraine," Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Laanemets said. "We must take a clear stance, these individuals cannot freely travel across Schengen."

'Not pushing the panic button,' Cowboys HC Schottenheimer not pulling plug on QB Milton https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/18/schottenheimer-cowboys-qb-milton-struggles-ravens…

Incredibly chaotic scene Los Angeles as LAPD is pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters.
You can also hear me grunt when police shoot me in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.
https://bsky.app/profile/jeremotograph

European rearmament is pushing Trump into irrelevance on Ukraine (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/19/for-all-the-noise-trump-is-ever-less-relevant-on-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p84#a250820p84

At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas is pushing to gerrymander congressional maps to add as many as five seats for Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/texas-redistricting-voter-maps-democrats-e…

The unusual GOP alliance pushing earmarks in this fall's funding fight (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/18/republicans-government-shutdown-earmarks-00512878
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p4#a250818p4

“I’m increasingly concerned with the growing cases of people in the United States
who have fled oppressive regimes
and are being detained and held for possible deportation,“
said Diaz-Balart, on X.
"Cases like Sanabria’s,
and so many others with legitimate claims of persecution,
require a thorough review.”
The letter from Diaz-Balart is the latest example of Miami Republicans pushing back against Trump’s immigration agenda,
the goal of w…