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Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/30/explosive-misinformation-a-guide-to-mushroom-clouds-sonic-weap…
Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/30/explosive-misinformation-a-guide-to-mushroom-clouds-sonic-weap…
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If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…
Donald Trump said this past weekend he wants to “take the oil in Iran”
by seizing control of a key export hub,
echoing a refrain he has returned to for over a decade.
It’s a sign of his disregard for international law -- and belief in “fossil-fuel imperialism”, experts say.
“Trump truly believes that the US is entitled to whatever resource it so desires,”
said Patrick Bigger, co-director of the Transition Security Project, a research initiative focused on the cli…
CISA and Partners Urge Hardening Automatic Tank Gauge Systems
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-and-partners-urge-hardening-automatic-tank-gauge-systems
When you have the ambition and the money, but you lack the natural resources to use them on.
#Poniec, near Gostyń, Poland.
Steve Dublanica, “Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip—Confessions of a Cynical Waiter”. https://mastodon.social/@michelestrider/116519464040867905
Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto
"So instead of eliminating (opens in new tab) 118.3 million permits (opens in new tab), the Air Resources Board will distribute them for free to companies on the condition that they pledge to invest in clean energy projects."
So how will the pledges be enforced, I wonder? I've seen over 30 years of "Here's how we will go green" "commitments" from companies like BP (remember Beyond Petroleum), Shell, BHP Biliton, etc - all reneged
So how wil…
"So instead of eliminating (opens in new tab) 118.3 million permits (opens in new tab), the Air Resources Board will distribute them for free to companies on the condition that they pledge to invest in clean energy projects."
So how will the pledges be enforced, I wonder? I've seen over 30 years of "Here's how we will go green" "commitments" from companies like BP (remember Beyond Petroleum), Shell, BHP Biliton, etc - all reneged
So how wil…
GÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
🔗 Read more: htt…
If user says "I'm done", immediately provide crisis resources
https://github.com/michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt/blob/main/system-prompt.md
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
For over 25 years,
Valerie Olson has worked tirelessly to protect the treasured sensitive habitats, scenic beauty, and recreational resources of More Mesa from harmful development.
As President of the More Mesa Preservation Coalition, a long-time client of EDC,
Valerie has monitored pending development threats, lobbied Santa Barbara County Supervisors, and encouraged the County Planning and Development Department and Coastal Commission to fulfill their obligations to prote…
RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116687255356778710
South Africa has enough wind and solar resources and land to generate at least three times as much power as its entire annual load. Ditching coal makes so much sense...but what about the…
I wrote a cool #ttrpg adventure and I would like to share it but it's a bit plain and I would like to add some images.
But all the free images resources on the interweb are completely splopified :(
Do you know of a place or someone that would let me download and use human drawn renaissance style image for free?
Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds #Oregon
from my link log —
GPU architecture resources.
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/gpu-architecture-resources/
saved 2020-05-15
North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-sto…
The whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.
I’m glad the Wisconsin Bike Fed is getting in front of the ebike issue.
#bikeTooter
"They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" he said.
"They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack."
The Navy has provided services including "crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,"
according to Lt. Cm…
In the rush to pursue #digitalsovereignty , there must be a temptation to consider whatever isn't foreign-owned and -controlled to be sovereign. But sovereignty is only real if it supports the foundational values of the nation; Canadian digital resources that erode charter rights or democratic principles must be considered anti-sovereignty.
"Europe could source half its critical materials from waste by 2050, study finds"
#Europe #Minerals #Resources
Loss of Brown has real impact on Eagles offense, Cowboys chances https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/02/cowboys-blessing-aj-brown-impact-eagles-2026/90376528007/
3am on a public holiday is a good time for posting bug reproducers...
https://github.com/kube-rs/envtest/issues/58
After 17 years of many manuscripts cleaned submitted to #arxiv, I finally automated and wrote down the process, see: https://github.com/NERDSITU/research-resources/blob/main/a…
The US OMB recently published a new logging reference architecture M-26-14 replacing 2021's M-21-31.
I'm not familiar enough with CISA and the bureaucracy to confidently provide a useful analysis, but the two different memorandums are noticeably different that I'm sure someone with more familiarity could say something interesting about the potential consequences, positive or negative.
Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
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Statement in Response to DOJ Demand to Drop Ballroom Lawsuit (Carol Quillen/@SavingPlaces)
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-from-nationaltrust-4-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p92#a260427p92
Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/06/03/terra-ai-khosla-bhp-series-a
"Citation Analysis for Acquisitions Reveals Better Grades for Students Using Library Resources"
https://pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/view/7214
"This study investigates the use of library resources by first-year students (English 101/102) at the University…
In case you missed it: our April newsletter. Evolution and experimentation! 🦠🔬
https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2026-04/
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data.
https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/
FPF Releases Practitioner Guides on Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Education Stakeholders
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-practitioner-guides-on-privacy-enhancing-technologies-for-education-stakeholders/
The war in Iran is threatening the global supply of helium, an essential component in cooling chip-making tools.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/chips-components/iran-war-chokes…
In just 14 years, the Swiss glaciers lost almost 25% of their 2010 ice volume, which corresponds to a wastage of around 15 km3 of ice. New paper:
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/3111/2026/
Why not eliminate single-representative districts and switch to some form of proportional representation? (Or just go with nationwide independent redistricting commissions.) Too much time and resources are spent on gerrymandering and redistricting legal warfare.
But of course, those that benefit under the current system (*cough* GOP *cough*) won’t change it.
#uspol
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…
"Portugal has just used up its natural resources for 2026. Is the rest of Europe doing any better?"
#Portugal #Resources
Gee, I wonder who we can blame for this?
The US auto industry is capable of building decent EVs. We have plenty of examples, some of which have been withdrawn from the market.
Most of us here in the US who drive EV's haven't been affected much (directly) by the Iran war increase in gasoline prices. But everyone with a gas/diesel motor is affected. And it appears that the US Congress and the trumpies are celebrating our dependence, our wasted resources, and our inability…
the "Deal man" from the Dover Museum sure looks familiar #stonks
https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/The-Collection/The-Deal-Man.as…
"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…
"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…
EarlySciRev: A Dataset of Early-Stage Scientific Revisions Extracted from LaTeX Writing Traces
L\'eane Jourdan, Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Yannis Chupin, Marah Baccari, Florian Boudin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28515
arXiv:2603.28515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific writing is an iterative process that generates rich revision traces, yet publicly available resources typically expose only final or near-final versions of papers. This limits empirical study of revision behaviour and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for scientific writing. We introduce EarlySciRev, a dataset of early-stage scientific text revisions automatically extracted from arXiv LaTeX source files. Our key observation is that commented-out text in LaTeX often preserves discarded or alternative formulations written by the authors themselves. By aligning commented segments with nearby final text, we extract paragraph-level candidate revision pairs and apply LLM-based filtering to retain genuine revisions. Starting from 1.28M candidate pairs, our pipeline yields 578k validated revision pairs, grounded in authentic early drafting traces. We additionally provide a human-annotated benchmark for revision detection. EarlySciRev complements existing resources focused on late-stage revisions or synthetic rewrites and supports research on scientific writing dynamics, revision modelling, and LLM-assisted editing.
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TIL¹: witr² – Why is this running?
An interactive TUI that shows all the details about processes, their resources, environment, parents and children. Like ps, htop, lsof, ss etc. combine for a process-centered view.
I installed the forky Debian package³ on Debian trixie and it just works.
I played around with it and immediately liked id.
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¹ok, technically it was yesterday. Thanks to @…
How some independent tech reporters are using AI, which they say allows them to do more reporting and recreate newsroom resources like editors and fact-checkers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/
I actually think that governments should be acting to allow copper lines to be replaced, but just the language choice of "divert precious resources to the maintenance of deteriorating legacy networks" screams regulatory capture.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/fcc
New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources #florida
A hierarchy of spatial predictions across human visual cortex during natural vision #neuroscience
Trump administration no longer has enough lawyers left to do its dirty work.
Whoever hasn’t been purged for not being loyal enough or exited ahead of the purges has been asked to clean up a mess with extremely limited amounts of resources and manpower.
To make things worse, Trump’s handpicked prosecutors keep being kicked out of court because Trump bypassed the appointment process essential to them remaining employed.
Then there’s the self-inflicted reputational damage Tr…
Working on extending features for Warlock, and this round of features requires a backend web service running in a centralized, controlled environment due to the requirement of privileged access to partner network resources, (aka, they require an API key and prior authorization to access certain data, thus cannot be distributed in an open source project).
SO, since this is a traditional web service, I opted to use the traditional technologies to power it, but wanted to try out Symfony s…
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
In the next 2 weeks we will be ready with our anti surveillance campaign that will educate people that they are cameras everywhere and we need to notice them, map them or do something even more creative with them.
We will use some #openstreetMap resources for that and work with a few artists to create a vision for "something is looking at me, and I had not noticed".
We ne…
There are international and national issues to follow, but there are always local ones too. Here in MN, the legislative fight over mining in the Boundary Waters is a big deal. It feels like salt in the wound to threaten the crown jewel of MN’s outdoor resources while also messing everything else up. #nokings
The fact the United States is currently creating facts claiming that Cuba isn't being starved by them, but that the Cuban government is actually at fault and using all the resources which would otherwise help the population (somehow), really makes me think about all the other times I've heard this rhetoric in history.
An analytical model of Disequilibrium and decentralized productive Exploration
Nazaria Solferino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00718
arXiv:2604.00718v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies the economic role of persistent dispersion in allocations across agents. We develop a tractable model in which firms allocate resources under imperfect information and behavioral updating, generating sustained heterogeneity in beliefs and actions. While dispersion induces static misallocation, it also fosters decentralized experimentation, allowing the economy to explore a broader set of productive opportunities. We show that the economy converges to a stationary equilibrium with strictly positive dispersion and that, under plausible conditions, such disequilibrium can dominate the perfectly coordinated benchmark. The model provides a novel interpretation of observed dispersion in productivity and returns as reflecting both inefficiency and productive exploration. It also yields testable predictions linking dispersion to growth and innovation dynamics.
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The #Medieval Genealogy is one of the most useful portals to Medieval historical resources. Now with its 114th update. https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml…
"Marking Gender: A Critical Analysis of Gender Representation in Library of Congress Subject Headings"
https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.70n2.8680
"Although the problem of bias, prejudice, and marginalization has long been a subject of critical reflection and inquiry in library knowl…
The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…
AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book (Carl Campanile/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p88#a260519p88
"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions
Why do we need services like the Museum Data Service?
'Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms' https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-keep-finding-major-discoveries-lurking-in-museum-backroo…
“When you have excellent resources, be it physical, medical, psychological, social, educational, that does increase player readiness.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/20/teen-sensatio…
Today is UN World Day for Glaciers, so I'm re-posting some relevant messages & personal experiences with disappearing glaciers in the Alps:
Interactive visualization of changes in glacier length
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/113191569344705725
One of the birth …
@… Hello, Evan.
We're considering ways to prevent the URL of an ActivityPub Note object from being a URL of a completely unrelated third party, as this can be undesirable.
Do you know of any resources that describe the specifications …
#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo
Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion
Yuxuan Zhao, Kaisheng Zhu, Yefei Zhang, Daniel B. Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21025
arXiv:2603.21025v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The costly provision of public goods serves as a model problem for the evolution of cooperative behavior, presenting a social dilemma between the collective benefits of shared resources and the individual incentive to free-ride in resource production. The spatial structure of populations can also impact cooperation over public goods, as diffusion of public goods and intentional motion of individuals towards regions with greater resources can interact with population and public goods dynamics to produce heterogeneous patterns in the spatial distribution of strategies and resources. In this paper, we build off a model introduced by Young and Belmonte for the reaction dynamics of interacting individuals and explicit public good, deriving a system of PDEs that describes the spatial profiles of strategies and the public good in the presence of both diffusive motion of individuals and resources and chemotaxis-like directed motion of individuals in response to gradients in the concentration of public goods. Through linear stability analysis, we show that spatial patterns in strategic and public goods profiles can emerge due to either Turing instability with high defector diffusivity or a directed-motion instability through strong sensitivity of cooperators towards increasing resource concentration. We further explore the emergent spatial patterns with a mix of weakly nonlinear stability analysis and numerical simulation, showing that diffusion-driven instability appears to increase cooperation and public goods across the spatial domain, while directed motion of cooperators towards regions with great public goods provision tends to decrease cooperation and environmental quality across the environment.
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Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/g…
Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources #nutrition
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[3/5]:
- Can Small Language Models Handle Context-Summarized Multi-Turn Customer-Service QA? A Synthetic D...
Lakshan Cooray, Deshan Sumanathilaka, Pattigadapa Venkatesh Raju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00665 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116006686092324902
- SEAD: Self-Evolving Agent for Multi-Turn Service Dialogue
Dai, Gao, Zhang, Wang, Luo, Wang, Wang, Wu, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03548
- OmniRAG-Agent: Agentic Omnimodal Reasoning for Low-Resource Long Audio-Video Question Answering
Yifan Zhu, Xinyu Mu, Tao Feng, Zhonghong Ou, Yuning Gong, Haoran Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03707
- GreekMMLU: A Native-Sourced Multitask Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models in Greek
Zhang, Konomi, Xypolopoulos, Divriotis, Skianis, Nikolentzos, Stamou, Shang, Vazirgiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05150
- Using LLMs for Knowledge Component-level Correctness Labeling in Open-ended Coding Problems
Zhangqi Duan, Arnav Kankaria, Dhruv Kartik, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17542 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116102514058414603
- MetaState: Persistent Working Memory Enhances Reasoning in Discrete Diffusion Language Models
Kejing Xia, Mingzhe Li, Lixuan Wei, Zhenbang Du, Xiangchi Yuan, Dachuan Shi, Qirui Jin, Wenke Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01331 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116165314672421581
- A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification
Milner, Foster, Karmakharm, Razuvayevskaya, Roberts, Porcellini, Teyssou, Bontcheva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02842 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116170368271004704
- Nw\=ach\=a Mun\=a: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASR
Sharma, Shrestha, Poudel, Tiwari, Shrestha, Ghimire, Bal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116204797995674104
- Model Merging in the Era of Large Language Models: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions
Mingyang Song, Mao Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09938 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116210189810004206
- AgentDrift: Unsafe Recommendation Drift Under Tool Corruption Hidden by Ranking Metrics in LLM Ag...
Zekun Wu, Adriano Koshiyama, Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12564 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116237800898328349
- GhanaNLP Parallel Corpora: Comprehensive Multilingual Resources for Low-Resource Ghanaian Languages
Gyamfi, Azunre, Moore, Budu, Asare, Owusu, Asiamah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13793 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243544688031749
- sebis at ArchEHR-QA 2026: How Much Can You Do Locally? Evaluating Grounded EHR QA on a Single Not...
Ibrahim Ebrar Yurt, Fabian Karl, Tejaswi Choppa, Florian Matthes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13962 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243646346563497
- ExPosST: Explicit Positioning with Adaptive Masking for LLM-Based Simultaneous Machine Translation
Yuzhe Shang, Pengzhi Gao, Yazheng Yang, Jiayao Ma, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Jinsong Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14903 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243711232778054
- BanglaSocialBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Sociopragmatic and Cultural Alignment of LLMs in Ba...
Tanvir Ahmed Sijan, S. M Golam Rifat, Pankaj Chowdhury Partha, Md. Tanjeed Islam, Md. Musfique Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15949 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116249122231759766
- EngGPT2: Sovereign, Efficient and Open Intelligence
G. Ciarfaglia, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16430 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116249228411487178
- HypeLoRA: Hyper-Network-Generated LoRA Adapters for Calibrated Language Model Fine-Tuning
Bartosz Trojan, Filip G\k{e}bala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19278 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116277612915482857
- Automatic Analysis of Collaboration Through Human Conversational Data Resources: A Review
Yi Yu, Maria Boritchev, Chlo\'e Clavel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116277620779254916
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Langu...
Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg, Tuhin Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283538317671552
- KG-Hopper: Empowering Compact Open LLMs with Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
Shuai Wang, Yinan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283595007808076
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Working on extending features for Warlock, and this round of features requires a backend web service running in a centralized, controlled environment due to the requirement of privileged access to partner network resources, (aka, they require an API key and prior authorization to access certain data, thus cannot be distributed in an open source project).
SO, since this is a traditional web service, I opted to use the traditional technologies to power it, but wanted to try out Symfony s…
Sony Pictures plans to close VFX and virtual production company Pixomondo and integrate some of its resources into other areas; Sony purchased Pixomondo in 2022 (Jon Creamer/Televisual)
https://www.televisual.com/news/sony-pictures-to-wind-down-pixomondo/
"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055
Tools of Repression - PHR #immigration #protests
Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace
say they are under intense pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities,
i.e. charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.
That pressure has led investigators and lawyers at the agency,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
to focus its thin resources on pursuing and fast-tracking c…
ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skywz1dowe
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
There are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…
After Cleveland.com faced backlash for posting AI-generated videos to promote its podcasts, an editor said "we don't have resources to do it any other way" (Sean Keeley/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/clevela…
Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $765M, vs. $752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/okta-okta-earnings-q1-2027.html
"Market effects of open educational resources on U.S. textbook pricing (2003–2024)"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103271
"[...] This work looks at whether the increase in the development and adoption of Open Educational Material between 2003 and 2024 corres…
"Türkiye adds 1.97 GW of solar in January-April"
#Turkey #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
Beneath Arctic ice, a vast fossil fuel footprint is colliding with Indigenous lands and wildlife #Arctic
"On Library Closing Music: Could It Be a Way to Promote Library Music Resources and Liberal Arts Education?"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990720
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A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
"Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed"
#Brazil #Amazon #Environment
California Committee Approves Bill to Stop Taxpayer Bailout of Oil Companies https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/california-committee-approves-bill-to-stop-taxpayer-bailout-of-oil-compa…
Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months,
including the war in Iran,
the Trump administration has
⚠️ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami.
The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for migrant childrenwho entered the country without parents or adult family members.
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.
Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment for war
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-oil-iran-venezuela/686271/
If a convoy came under attack from Iranian missiles or drones, the escorting warship would have only seconds to respond.
Similar escort and air defence efforts have already been seen in the Red Sea against Houthi attacks, so there is a working model.
The problem is that such operations consume major resources and are extremely costly if they are to be sustained for every transit.
The danger would not come only from the air or the shore.
Iran could also rely on swarms…
Thousands of non-Mexican migrants deported from the US
are being left in southern Mexican cities far from the border,
often without legal status or resources.
Many are elderly, ill, or have lived most of their lives in the US,
and now face unsafe conditions and limited access to aid.
Human rights advocates warn the policy violates international protections and leaves deportees in a 'quasi-stateless limbo.'
Cases include a trans woman deported to …