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Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-false.html

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests
Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures, entrench environmental injustices, and reinforce the political and economic power of the very industry responsible for the climate crisis.

🎭 Climate deniers' online strategy: Using scientific aesthetics to appear credible
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-climate-deniers-online-strategy-scientific.html

Climate deniers' online strategy: Using scientific aesthetics to appear credible
Climate deniers use scientific aesthetics to reinforce and legitimize their message. At the same time, their main opponents, the climate activists, are portrayed as emotional and irrational. This has been demonstrated by researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam, who have studied how climate deniers communicate online. The results are published in Environmental Politics.

Raiders meet with Maxx Crosby to reinforce commitment to star pass rusher amid trade rumors: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6740182/2025/10/22/las-vegas-raiders-maxx-crosby-meeting/

Reinforce-Ada: An Adaptive Sampling Framework for Reinforce-Style LLM Training
Wei Xiong, Chenlu Ye, Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Xinxing Xu, Christof Monz, Jiang Bian, Nan Jiang, Tong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04996

Reinforce-Ada: An Adaptive Sampling Framework for Reinforce-Style LLM Training
Reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLMs) for reasoning tasks is often bottlenecked by unstable gradient estimates due to fixed and uniform sampling of responses across prompts. Prior work such as GVM-RAFT addresses this by dynamically allocating inference budget per prompt to minimize stochastic gradient variance under a budget constraint. Inspired by this insight, we propose Reinforce-Ada, an adaptive sampling framework for online RL post-training of LLMs that continuousl…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115355130590936308
Part 2: when European, national and local policies reinforce each other. How diesel vans disappeared from new vehicle sales in the Netherlands.

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will unveil a new £4 million project to reinforce cyber defenses in the Western Balkans, and share expertise in countering disinformation and other malign activity from hostile actors.
Foreign Secretary to put boosting security and tackling illegal migration at the heart of foreign policy during meeting of European partners

Foreign Secretary to put boosting security and tackling illegal migration at the heart of foreign policy during meeting of European partners
Foreign Secretary hosts meeting in Northern Ireland, focused on preserving security and stability in the Western Balkans. 

Spotify enters into a direct music publishing agreement with BMG, following deals in 2025 with UMG, Sony Music, Warner Chappell, and Kobalt (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/s…

Spotify Signs Licensing Publishing Deal with BMG
"Working directly with Spotify helps us reinforce our mission to ensure songwriters are fairly represented and rewarded for their work," BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld said.

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Isabella Gra{\ss}l, Benedikt Fein, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11064 https://arx…

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Gender stereotypes in introductory programming courses often go unnoticed, yet they can negatively influence young learners' interest and learning, particularly under-represented groups such as girls. Popular tutorials on block-based programming with Scratch may unintentionally reinforce biases through character choices, narrative framing, or activity types. Educators currently lack support in identifying and addressing such bias. With large language models~(LLMs) increasingly used to generate …

This is particularly bad in #Italy, where #WhatsApp is the default means of communication. In other countries I've lived in at least they consider alternatives. In Italy people don't even ask you if you have an account before adding you in school parent groups or contacting you for work over WhatsApp.

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information
How people talk about data privacy can overcome – or reinforce – their skepticism that things can change.

Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Johnnatan Messias, Ayae Ide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05830 https://arxiv.org/…

Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) aim to enable participatory governance, but in practice face challenges of voter apathy, concentration of voting power, and misaligned delegation. Existing delegation mechanisms often reinforce visibility biases, where a small set of highly ranked delegates accumulate disproportionate influence regardless of their alignment with the broader community. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of delegation in DAO governance, combining on-chain da…

"well, it's cold and beautiful and dark" How I describe what I do to reinforce my reputation of "that good-for-nothing cousin who never calls" 😄
When your entire family has gotten your job all wrong (Short) #TV #Fleabag

"It Felt Real" Victim Perspectives on Platform Design and Longer-Running Scams
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, Hong Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02680 https://

"It Felt Real" Victim Perspectives on Platform Design and Longer-Running Scams
Longer-running scams, such as romance fraud and "pig-butchering" scams, exploit not only victims' emotions but also the design of digital platforms. Scammers commonly leverage features such as professional-looking profile verification, algorithmic recommendations that reinforce contact, integrated payment systems, and private chat affordances to gradually establish trust and dependency with victims. Prior work in HCI and criminology has examined online scams through the lenses of detection mech…

StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22558

StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities for solving Operations Research (OR) problems. While reinforcement learning serves as a powerful paradigm for LLM training on OR problems, existing works generally face two key limitations. First, outcome reward suffers from the credit assignment problem, where correct final answers can reinforce flawed reasoning. Second, conventional discriminative process supervision is myopic, failing to evaluate the interdependent steps of OR mo…