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Just finished "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas. In an unusual twist of fate, I had read "Concrete Rose" earlier, which gave me a rich backstory to relate things to. "The Hate U Give" is really good, but I found the resolution of King's arc slightly disappointing, even though the ending was strong. It's definitely not my place to judge Thomas' perspective here, but I do think that the book's broad popularity including among more liberal audiences probably stems at least in part from the way it allows a "the cops have issues but are ultimately-necessary/sometimes-positive" reading that undermines the strength of the core message.
In the end I like Concrete Rose better, but they're both great and I'll be putting Thomas' other books on my to-read list.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[6/6]:
- Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu, Min-Hung Chen, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115898618760721320
- Universality of Many-body Projected Ensemble for Learning Quantum Data Distribution
Quoc Hoan Tran, Koki Chinzei, Yasuhiro Endo, Hirotaka Oshima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18637 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115967001797773134
- FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
Haozheng Luo, Zhuolin Jiang, Md Zahid Hasan, Yan Chen, Soumalya Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115972068838908815
- Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy
Shun Takagi, Seng Pei Liew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19154 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115971701218309765
- CryoLVM: Self-supervised Learning from Cryo-EM Density Maps with Large Vision Models
Weining Fu, Kai Shu, Kui Xu, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02620
- XtraLight-MedMamba for Classification of Neoplastic Tubular Adenomas
Sultana, Afsar, Rahu, Singh, Shula, Combs, Forchetti, Asari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04819
- Flow-Based Conformal Predictive Distributions
Trevor Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07633 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116045671088130364
- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116046486984991360
- UI-Venus-1.5 Technical Report
Venus Team, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116050980295461008
- The Wisdom of Many Queries: Complexity-Diversity Principle for Dense Retriever Training
Xincan Feng, Noriki Nishida, Yusuke Sakai, Yuji Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116051022881293649
- Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem
Shahriar Golchin, Marc Wetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16729 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116101884238965526
- The Metaphysics We Train: A Heideggerian Reading of Machine Learning
Heman Shakeri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116125225694943789
- Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks
David Schmotz, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20156 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116125330557447048
- A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20159 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116125664801070747
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Opinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/

Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.

If you’re new around here, I maintain an “Intro to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” list, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/edit?tab=t.0
There’s also a mirror availabl…

Reading material. Ones that sound interesting will be tagged. Then a grocery list prepared.

I've seen folks boost an interview about this book. I'm really excited to see it come out, and definitely adding it to my reading list.
https://www.akpress.org/to-catch-a-fascist.html

added hn and lobsters to the dns deny list. Firefox "failed to load page" will be my reminder that even staring at the wall will be more useful than reading those 2 sites

Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
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