@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Headlines: Injury updates, Eagles news, contract talk, life after Parsons https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/02/cowboys-headlines-injury-updates-eagles-news-life-after-parsons/8…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageTalking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects
Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02367
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Headlines: Injury updates, Eagles news, contract talk, life after Parsons https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/02/cowboys-headlines-injury-updates-eagles-news-life-after-parsons/8…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageVitaBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents with Versatile Interactive Tasks in Real-world Applications
Wei He, Yueqing Sun, Hongyan Hao, Xueyuan Hao, Zhikang Xia, Qi Gu, Chengcheng Han, Dengchang Zhao, Hui Su, Kefeng Zhang, Man Gao, Xi Su, Xiaodong Cai, Xunliang Cai, Yu Yang, Yunke Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26490
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialTo be filed in "stuff I'll never understand, like ever": videos about asking AI shit.
Who the fuck cares? I mean, if you really care what the AI has to say (ha!) about something, you can ask it yourself. Why the fuck are you watching a video about someone else asking a question you can ask yourself?! Too much time to waste in your life?
People, man... They're fucking tiresome. For real.
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageREConnect: Participatory RE that Matters
Daniela Damian, Bachan Ghimire, Ze Shi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01006 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01006…
@ErikUden@mastodon.defalse alarm, folx
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageParameter estimation of the four-parameter Harris extended Weibull distribution with applications to real-life data
Prithul Chaturvedi, Himanshu Pokhriyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26162
@UP8@mastodon.social🕶️ Comparison of Metabolic and Pulmonary Variables Between Real-Life and Mixed Reality Pickleball
#ar
@pre@boing.worldGot to the end of it all. Cried a few times, laughed a few times, enjoyed it all.
Angel is at it worst in Season Four and possibly it's best in Season Five when they've all mystically forgotten about Season Four and turned more ambiguously evil.
Strange to bring Spike back for that season of Angel after he died so gloriously at the end of Buffy. That could be what made the fifth year the best one though.
Doubt it's possible to watch those 250 episodes much quicker without being actually unemployed. Fitted the broken-wrist convalescence period quite nicely though.
So long Buffy. See you again next decade maybe. Got a real life to get back to.
Might read some of the comics though.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMicrosoft has invited vibe working. We did it everyone! We won capitalism!
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAny sort of •actual• strength is a threat to that illusion. A real strongman makes the photo cut-out look cheap, laughable.
Say what you will about US imperialism and the military-industrial complex, but the military is truly full of people who possess actual strength and discipline and do extremely difficult jobs well. It is full of people whose daily life makes a mockery of fascism’s cartoonish masculinity. And — devastating!! — many of those people are women! brown people! Black people! with all kids of bodies! who look all kinds of ways! The existence of a competent military is a threat to fascism that must be contained for fascism to spread.
4/
@servelan@newsie.social‘The pro-life movement still has some real juice’: How Trump’s promise of free IVF fizzled - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/the-pro-life-movement-still-has-some-real-juice-how-trumps-promise-of-free-ivf-fizzled-00622464
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'The pro-life movement still has some real juice': How Trump's promise of free IVF fizzled (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/the-pro-life-movement-still-has-some-real-juice-how-trumps-promise-of-free-ivf-fizzled-00622464
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p6#a251026p6
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageReal Time Fatigue Crack Growth Monitoring Using High Precision Control and Data Acquisition Systems
Arev Hambardzumyan, Rafayel Ghasabyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23710 https:…
@only_ohm@mas.toI suggest they're not so much ribs as motile structures for gripping and drawing in prey, as seen on the Nazi-eating giant slugs in #DoctorWho. That's not unheard of in real-life molluscs, right?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSelling stuff on eBay is so funny sometimes, like when someone extremely low-balls you and you decline their offer and then they message you with "What's your lowest?"
That's not how haggling works, you need to make a fair offer to the seller—it's a deeply human thing to negotiate about price, and both sides need to be respectful of each other.
I think haggling should be taught in school tbh. A real life skill.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, please remember that while our focus this week has been on trying to get the families stuck under Israel’s bombs in the North to relative safety in the South, our families in the South need your continued support for the basic necessities of life.
You’ll remember Aseel as she was our very first Gaza Verified member.
Every week, she tries to raise $500 so she can feed her family of six.
Her fundraiser isn’t doing too well this week.
(She still has a little over …
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@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@doktrock@toad.social"Two new Edmontosaurus mummies—a late juvenile and an early adult—with large continuous areas of preserved external skin surface" from #Wyoming #paleontology
"#Dinosaur 'mummies'…
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.pageA smart city model for an intelligent traffic light decision system
Darko Pajkovski, Marija Apostoloska Kondoska, Hristina Dimova Popovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25254 https…
@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.pageReal-time gait event detection using motion capture to control an electrical stimulator: Proof-of-concept
Gabriel Graffagnino (CAMIN), David Gasq (ToNIC, Comue de Toulouse), Karine Patte (CAMIN), Beno\^it Sijobert (CAMIN), Christine Azevedo Coste (CAMIN)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26400
@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.pageLeveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world
Yossi Ben-Zion, Turhan K. Carroll, Colin G. West, Jesse Wong, Noah D. Finkelstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22929
@arXiv_csIT_bot@mastoxiv.pagePerformance Analysis of IEEE 802.11bn with Coordinated TDMA on Real-Time Applications
Seungmin Lee, Changmin Lee, Si-Chan Noh, Joonsoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18755 https…
@cheryanne@aus.socialAlways Business Class
Flight hacks, points strategies and real-life stories from the points whisperer...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/always-business-class/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Acopia:
🎵 Real Life
#Acopia
https://acopia.bandcamp.com/track/real-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/2R1GNetV5KogQx7h1b8tgg
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (Thomas Germain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-e…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaMostly nature videos, or just whatever I get up to in real life.
@…
https://peertube.wtf/c/p.marg/videos
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22: What inspiration have you taken from historical figures or events?
Most of my stories are set in a mythical past like mythical ancient Greece or mythical Viking Age Europe where the gods are real.
I rarely write historical figures but sometimes I use (allegedly) real life persons or events for inspiration.
@hynek@mastodon.socialthe other day I tried to explain astigmatism to someone (my eye condition that got worse over the years; reading glasses don't help me shit) and someone else was like "ah yes, real-life lens flare”!
I couldn't explain my issue to anyone in 45 years and there it was, in four words.
@UP8@mastodon.social🪞 New technology turns paintings into holograms, bringing art to life
#display
@brian_gettler@mas.toYesterday, my spouse was interviewed by a local radio host. After she told us about it, I had to ask:
So is he shorter in real life than on the radio?
No one even groaned. In fact, they barely even rolled their eyes. Come on!
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioClassifiers are notoriously prone to misclassifying things by picking up on hidden and unwanted patterns in the data. The classic hypothetical example is a military that tries to train a classifier to detect images with tanks, but they took all their tank photos on a sunny day and so the classifier just identifies sunny photos.
A real-life example of this happened with a student project: they tried to train a system to determine whether rooms on campus had a positive affect, but accidentally trained it to detect whether photos had ramped-up saturation (because all their “positive affect” photos came from admissions materials).
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI know the WeWork show is "real life". but FUCK IT. I want a season 2 so bad. Have him start a rocket company or run for president.
@mia@hcommons.social'YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos' - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euFeel free to disagree with the statement about the missing redemption, and find out in what ways fantasy narratives differ from real life 😃 ->
No. #1 Thing I Have Never Liked About the Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7w5sbquPAI
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (Thomas Germain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-e…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotFriends, of course we all hope the #ceasefire will hold. Of course we all hope that aid trucks will be allowed to move. Of course we all hope that there will be a stable, just peace.
But hope isn't enough. The suffering in #Gaza hasn't ended. We must keep pressure on our governments to ensu…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageContext-Aware Risk Estimation in Home Environments: A Probabilistic Framework for Service Robots
Sena Ishii, Akash Chikhalikar, Ankit A. Ravankar, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces, Yasuhisa Hirata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19788
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDOOMscroll — The Game
This is a real doom game like in real life. Scroll through monotonous until you lose and you still believe that is with depth. The acquisition of betting is how deep you sink monotonous ;-)
😈 https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comSolstice-5: CGI scifi short about what a real life Factorio might look like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntb3wcZdTw
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageDeploying UDM Series in Real-Life Stuttered Speech Applications: A Clinical Evaluation Framework
Eric Zhang (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Li Wei (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Sarah Chen (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Michael Wang (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory)
https://arxiv.o…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIsrael could kill Bambi on live TV and some of you fuckers would still be cheering from the sidelines. No, actually, scratch that, what am I thinking? Some of you racist pieces of shit would probably feel worse for a cartoon deer than a real-life Brown person.
@yaya@jorts.horsehigh-key feel like I might pass out or throw up and die I truly don't know so im just gonna touch myself about it idfk
be real cool if life wasn't so fucking overwhelming all the goddamn time
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialis AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI just bought these on a whim and I have never owned a real life physical object that looks so digitally rendered. This is what Tron should have been
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI don’t miss Twitter in my real life, but I still feel its absence at tech events. Did we just stop telling speakers we enjoyed their talks, stop connecting with the people we cross paths with, and stop carrying on the conversation in digital space? I do miss that.
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.pageOneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service
Zhipeng Wei, Kuo Cai, Junda She, Jie Chen, Minghao Chen, Yang Zeng, Qiang Luo, Wencong Zeng, Ruiming Tang, Kun Gai, Guorui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14646
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaI need a real life version of Ublock Origin
#ublockorigin
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMetacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly 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
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
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--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…
@cdarwin@c.imSpeaker Johnson should be ashamed of himself.
He should also have gone to one of the rallies in his congressional district
—there appear to have been three of them, and two more right nearby
—and seen for himself the flags
and the “I love my country” signs
and talked to some of the good and decent people from all walks of life who attended.
In Leesville, he might have met people like organizer Bradley Hesson, who told KALB-TV:
“We’re out here to show…
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageRemaining Time Prediction in Outbound Warehouse Processes: A Case Study (Short Paper)
Erik Penther, Michael Grohs, Jana-Rebecca Rehse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18986 https://…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated to Youth Development Initiatives (Charlotte, NC)
https://www.ydiinc.org/
Providing caring adult connections and life guidance to disadvantaged adolescent youth.
YDI scholars engage in an individualized development process that combines project-based learning applications with real-world lea…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaSeedlings (XPd on PC)
There's some strange new forms of life in the New Zealand forests, take control of one and explore.
So this is a short puzzle platformer with a neat catch: most of what you'll see on the screen are images captured directly from the forests of New Zealand. Using real images as a backdrop is certainly not a new idea, but it's used remarkably well here.
The gameplay is simple enough: as an apparently sentient seed, you are tasked with travers…
@kevin@social.losno.co@… for real life?!
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldWhat do kids want these days?
https://www.freerangekids.com/want-kids-to-spend-less-time-in-the-virtual-world-give-them-back-the-real-one/
@jake4480@c.imMaya Hawke narrates docuseries 'Nightmares of Nature', a two season series that follows three animal characters facing all the real-life horrors and monsters nature can throw at them.
The first season titled Cabin in the Woods (follows a mouse, raccoon, and frog) is on Netflix now, and the second season is titled Lost in the Jungle (follows an opossum, iguana, and spider) and will be on Netflix on October 28.
@seav@en.osm.town
@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.pageReconstructing the dielectric properties of melanoma in 3D using real-life melanoma model
Georg Kyhn, Eric Lindstr\"om, Larisa Beilina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07780 http…
@seedling@dice.campover under is taking over my life
it is becoming a real problem
uh do we have a hashtag for this #overunder maybe
@guerda@ruhr.socialMoin @… !
Ich habe bei dir im queueT repository dein Makefile mir angeschaut und würde gerne den Ansatz kopieren, weil ich auch #uv nutze. Dazu habe ich eine Frage, vielleicht kannst du mir da helfen: Wie sagst du Make, dass der alles mit ruff und pytest im Kontext vom venv bzw. mi…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialAbout 10 years ago I was going to make an IOT stapler that would track how many times you stapled. It was going to have a USB cable and Arduino and send data to a web page.
I was going to do this because it would have been fucking ridiculous but I abandoned the project because real life is always more ridiculous than any joke you can come up with.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialI am so bad at writing flirting. Thankfully it doesn't have to be particularly smooth or anything for this story but still I keep struggling with this kind of exchange even though I think that dialogue is otherwise a strength of mine. How people pull this off in real life IN REAL TIME will forever be a mystery to me.
#amWriting
@cheryanne@aus.socialYouth Matters
A podcast that follows the real-life milestones of second-generation Arab youth growing up in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/youth-matters/
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de@… Real Life Content Warning 😄
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@brichapman@mastodon.socialSometimes in life, like in dance, stepping back isn't a mistake or setback but an essential move to create space, rhythm, and shape for the next big leap forward. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-backward-step
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders' Fantasy Grades Through the Bye Week https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-fantasy-football-ashton-jeanty-geno-smith
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza#LB Dando boost nessa daqui só pela nostalgia rs.
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115396236038327488
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them
Yuichiro Kamada, Fuhito Kojima, Akira Matsushita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19628
@arXiv_csLO_bot@mastoxiv.pageEfficient Volume Computation for SMT Formulas
Arijit Shaw, Uddalok Sarkar, Kuldeep S. Meel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0993…
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaFrom fantasy to science, all in one stream! Join me as I explore Middle-earth in LOTRO while 3D printing the legendary Tiangong-1 Space Station. The only thing better than an epic quest is a real-life space build. #LOTRO #3DPrinting
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialIt's great to see this innovation coming to life! The Recharge 100 🔌 DC fast charging network in 🇸🇪 Sweden (SE3 region) is awaiting final TSO approval to deliver Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCR) to help balance the grid!
https://www.linked…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert. It's... much less chaste than most of the other romances I've been reading, but also incredibly sweet and positive, so I enjoyed it a lot.
My one reservation is that it does the thing a lot of romance novels do where they equate physical desire with romantic desire, and physical flirtations/advances with actual communication, and yes people equate those things in the real world all the time, by it's often really harmful when they do that.
This novel does better with consent than 99% of the field probably, and legitimately deserves props for that, so this isn't the harsh criticism I'd level if it seriously broke the "would this be okay if we didn't have access to interior monologues" test, but it skirts the edges of that a bit.
#AmReading
@Techmeme@techhub.socialiOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality-of-life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished (Zachary McAuliffe/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotChallenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 17: Vicki Jarrett
So far she's published a couple of really good novels and a collection of short stories. She strikes me as the type of author who aims for quality, not quantity.
I adored her first novel "Nothing is Heavy", based on real life experiences in Edinburgh. Her other novel, "Always North" is an eco-thriller set in Svalbard, a Norwegian arctic island.
Both great…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageTake That for Me: Multimodal Exophora Resolution with Interactive Questioning for Ambiguous Out-of-View Instructions
Akira Oyama, Shoichi Hasegawa, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Tadahiro Taniguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16143
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pagei-LAVA: Insights on Low Latency Voice-2-Voice Architecture for Agents
Anupam Purwar, Aditya Choudhary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20971 https://arxiv.org/pd…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialI wonder what inspired TIL to post this today.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115232287275687330
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageVR Fire safety training application
Ujwal M R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15788
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaBasically, someone I know in real life, is blatantly pretending and lying, attempting to trick my mind into believing that anarcho-syndicalism is the same thing as authoritarianism. The absurdity of this conflation is laughable.
Anarcho-syndicalism fundamentally opposes authoritarian structures by advocating for decentralized, worker-controlled organizations and direct democracy, whereas authoritarianism centers on concentrated, top-down control and coercive power.
The attempt to…
@pre@boing.worldTWENTY SEVEN series! Man. South Park continues to be pretty cool too.
Still both fresh and yet familiar. I remain in awe of the consistency of the show over more than half my whole life now.
Stupid cock and fart jokes with an absurd setup which on a second level is mentioning and mocking the true absurdity and violence of real life.
Satan being Trump's lover in a rehash of the Sadam Hussain skit is lovely.
They seem determined to try and get cancelled, but haven't managed that in 27 years. Maybe it's a small-dick joke that'll finally do them in?
Still got half of this season to watch. Seems like it's mostly bi-weekly now? Or every episode is delayed.
#watching #tv #southPark
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageTowards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards
Ting Yang, Li Chen, Huimin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12935
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.pagePersonalized Contest Recommendation in Fantasy Sports
Madiraju Srilakshmi, Kartavya Kothari, Kamlesh Marathe, Vedavyas Chigurupati, Hitesh Kapoor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14065
@cheryanne@aus.socialPop Culture Parenting
This podcast is about finding the sweetspot between the textbooks and real life when it comes to parenting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/pop-culture-parenting/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and the generative AI chatbot shows how ordinarily rational people can spiral into delusion (New York Times)
https://www.
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageAttention-based Mixture of Experts for Robust Speech Deepfake Detection
Viola Negroni, Davide Salvi, Alessandro Ilic Mezza, Paolo Bestagini, Stefano Tubaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17585
@pre@boing.worldBeing stuck with a broken wrist so unable to really do much of the things, I have spend a lot of this month watching TV.
I'm not all that up on Star Wars, so when I watched Season One of Andor I didn't know it was about a man called Andor, I had that name confused with Endor, and so I was distracted by the lack of Ewoks.
No such distraction for season two though, now I know it's about a rebel mercenary and his adventures leading up to him being in Rogue One delivering details about how to blow up a death star.
They all live in the Empire, which is relentless and authoritarian and evil just like the real life empire taking over western civilization now. They persecute and harass poor Andor and his buddies so much that they cause the rebellion against their authority that they intend to suppress.
Great show.
Wonder if all the people arrested wrongfully for doing no real crime in the US and UK and around the west will end up fighting the empire here too?
Still wish there was a series about ewoks though.
#watching #tv #andor
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageShapes of Cognition for Computational Cognitive Modeling
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Sanjay Oruganti, Jesse English
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13288 https://
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageExploreVLM: Closed-Loop Robot Exploration Task Planning with Vision-Language Models
Zhichen Lou, Kechun Xu, Zhongxiang Zhou, Rong Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11918 https://…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialObesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors about user growth, concealing personal expenses, and more (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/04/tech-ceo-vcs-unicorn-irl-fraud-softbank/
@cheryanne@aus.socialPostpartum Doula Diaries
Postpartum Doula Diaries shares the real and raw journey of life as an Australian Postpartum Doula...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/postpartum-doula-diaries/
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageNon-Verbal Vocalisations and their Challenges: Emotion, Privacy, Sparseness, and Real Life
Anton Batliner, Shahin Amiriparian, Bj\"orn W. Schuller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01960
