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After months of GitHub saying incorrectly that I had unread notifications, someone or something reset something and now I finally have a dotless board. Thanks to whatever or whoever is responsible.

The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship
The European Union's executive is warning of possible action against the U.S. after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor viewpoints. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the five "radical" activists. They include Thierry Breton who is the former EU commissioner responsible for supervising social media rules. The European Commission condemned on Wednesday the U.S. decision and is seeking clarification. It says the EU is within…

Trump's big, bad battleship will fail | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-battleship/

Fat Putin is directly responsible for the most wasteful expenses in American history.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3m3tfi26ors2r

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans
it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress "American viewpoints".
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations,
fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. …

US bars five Europeans accused of censoring Americans
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized them as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations. The five Europeans include the leaders of organizations that address digital hate and a former EU commissioner who clashed with tech billionaire Elon Musk over broadcasting an online interview with Donald Trump. Rubio’s …

Polar Motion Dynamics on Slow-Rotating #Venus - Signatures of Mantle Flow: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025AV001976 -> Venus’s rotation axis is not where it should be – but atmospheric torques, not mantle convection, are likely responsible: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/is-convection-wobbling-venus

Revealing the 'carbon hoofprint' of meat consumption for American cities #AnimalRights

Revealing the 'carbon hoofprint' of meat consumption for American cities
Depending on where you live in the United States, the meat you eat each year could be responsible for a level of greenhouse gas emissions that's similar to what's emitted to power your house.

Church is no friend of Maduro, but Pope Leo quietly resisting US war | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pope-leo-venezuela/

Really good Reddit discussion that asks: CISO or Head of Engineering? Who is responsible? Meaning, who is responsible for cyber compliance?
As one commenter noted, the only acceptable answer is the CEO and the Board.
https://www.reddit.com/r/c…

Low-fat vegan (plant-based) diet can reduce an individual's greenhouse gas emissions by 51% #nutrition

Low-fat vegan diet can reduce an individual's greenhouse gas emissions by 51%
A low-fat vegan diet is associated with a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and cumulative energy demand (CED) compared to the Standard American Diet, according to research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published in JAMA Network Open.

Oof, fuck microsoft.
But also, there's no reason to use permissive licenses any more. "Open source" has taken over the world. We no longer have to work with billion-dollar companies in order to get our stuff used. Now we need to protect ourselves from being taken advantage of by them.
https://

I don't believe that anyone is intrinsically or essentially evil. If we believed they they were intrinsically evil, we could not hold them responsible for the evil that they do, because they could not help it.
But people do things which are evil. People do things which are evil often because they did not sufficiently think ahead, and consider the consequences of their actions. And people do things which are evil sometimes because others who have authority over them tell them to. &g…

Ultimately, Darth #Trump and Darth #Putin are losers fighting for survival who respect no moral or legal boundaries.
They are responsible in different ways for Russia's war crimes—one as a war criminal, the other as an immoral exploiter and self-serving opportunist.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@saraislet/115409648180155252
I should write a talk on cloud security vs bear metal security
Something like this:
"I'm Sarai Rosenberg, and I've been responsible for securing one of the largest cloud …

Unit Responsible for Kremlin Attack Disbanded: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/unit-responsible-for-kremlin-attack.html

"Before he gets someone killed"? There is already a long list of people whose deaths he is, at least somewhat, responsible for.
https://mastodon.social/@wdlindsy@toad.social/115588464257250043

taking my medtimes at a normal time like a responsible person bc I have to actually leave the fuckening house tomorrow ew

📈 Banks that identify fraudsters increase loyalty, retain more defrauded customers than others who never were compromised
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-banks-fraudsters-loyalty-retain-defrauded.html

Banks that identify fraudsters increase loyalty, retain more defrauded customers than others who never were compromised
Financial institutions are constantly fighting off fraudsters who steal money from customer accounts. Banks spend millions each year to figure out who was responsible and keep customers from leaving; however, in most cases it's nearly impossible to figure out who committed the fraud.

Responsible AI Adoption in the Public Sector: A Data-Centric Taxonomy of AI Adoption Challenges
Anastasija Nikiforova, Martin Lnenicka, Ulf Melin, David Valle-Cruz, Asif Gill, Cesar Casiano Flores, Emyana Sirait, Mariusz Luterek, Richard Michael Dreyling, Barbora Tesarova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09634

Responsible AI Adoption in the Public Sector: A Data-Centric Taxonomy of AI Adoption Challenges
Despite Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformative potential for public sector services, decision-making, and administrative efficiency, adoption remains uneven due to complex technical, organizational, and institutional challenges. Responsible AI frameworks emphasize fairness, accountability, and transparency, aligning with principles of trustworthy AI and fair AI, yet remain largely aspirational, overlooking technical and institutional realities, especially foundational data and governance. …

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"
#kleptocracy
Legacy Media…

Legacy Media's License To Kill
We've lived to see the day when a newspaper excuses the man who butchered their journalist By November, 2018, the CIA had concluded that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And moreover—that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing.

China’s APT31 linked to hacks on Russian tech firms https://therecord.media/russia-report-apt31-china-linked-hacks

Europe believes Russia responsible for drone sightings, Dutch PM says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/europe-believes-russia-responsible-for.html

Holy sh*t, what timing. The National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, is furloughing 1,400 people on a day that I broke the story that a foreign threat actor infiltrated the NNSA's Kansas City manufacturing plant.
This story broke after my exclusive on how foreign threat actors infiltrated the NNSA''s Kansas City plant went live.

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday
The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Department of Energy.

PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans

A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/824054/algorithm-accountability-act-section-…

Lawmakers want to let users sue over harmful social media algorithms
Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which would reform tech’s liability shield Section 230.

Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop "responsible" AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/spotif…

Spotify Partners With Sony, Universal, Warner to Develop AI Products
Spotify has announced a partnership with Sony, Universal, Warner and more to develop AI music products intended to empower artists and songwriters.

This airs starting about an hour from now on MSNBC. Produced by Rachel Maddow, who is doing an hour now before the movie which starts at 9PM EDT
Andy Young was a critical collaborator of Dr. King and later Mayor of Atlanta. A great inspiration for everyone going out tomorrow. https://

Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young describes 'dirty work' of civil rights movement in new documentary
Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an unsavory phrase. Grunt work is more like it — efforts that may not produce headlines but keep the …

"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."
#kleptocracy
Legacy M…

Legacy Media's License To Kill
We've lived to see the day when a newspaper excuses the man who butchered their journalist By November, 2018, the CIA had concluded that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And moreover—that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing.

The way people share their screens in online meetings has to be a critical security issue in many organisations. Inadvertently showing their calendar or email, or demoing other sensitive content while the screen is being recorded – I’ve seen it all. Many employees need a primer on how to share their screen in a safe and responsible way.

Finished "Dissolution" by Nicholas Binge.
An elderly couple, Stanley & Maggie, are coping with his deteriorating memory, for which he's living in a care facility. A strange visitor credibly claims the home is responsible for removing his memories, and that Stanley's mind holds a secret that will save the world from imminent destruction.
A cat & mouse game ensues across time, memory, and featuring a deliciously evil character. Complex!
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Dissolution
A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a …

Can Risk-taking AI-Assistants suitably represent entities
Ali Mazyaki, Mohammad Naghizadeh, Samaneh Ranjkhah Zonouzaghi, Amirhossein Farshi Sotoudeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08114

Can Risk-taking AI-Assistants suitably represent entities
Responsible AI demands systems whose behavioral tendencies can be effectively measured, audited, and adjusted to prevent inadvertently nudging users toward risky decisions or embedding hidden biases in risk aversion. As language models (LMs) are increasingly incorporated into AI-driven decision support systems, understanding their risk behaviors is crucial for their responsible deployment. This study investigates the manipulability of risk aversion (MoRA) in LMs, examining their ability to repl…

Want to try an imagine how difficult things could get for us in the EU? (Or elsewhere?) You dont even have to try hard.
If you are responsible for planning, running, maintaining or procuring IT infrastructure of any kind for any organisation, this is essential reading.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

Just heard about the ceasefire agreement from folks in Gaza (was heads-down coding).
I want to be optimistic although I fear what Israel and Netanyahu’s government will do to sabotage it.
Also, is it too soon to talk about holding Israel and the IDF responsible for genocide?
h…

Updates: Israel approves Gaza ceasefire deal; Hamas touts US guarantee
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Thursday, October 9.

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

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.

Trump buys millions in Boeing bonds while awarding it contracts | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-boeing-intel/

"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
https://social.coop/@eloquence/115535529645390697

The afterlife is only terrible for those who are responsible for many others waiting there.

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

Are the US government staff responsible for patching F5 servers even working this week?

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing
Anthony Hughes, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan, Nikolaos Aletras, Ning Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07452

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing
Language models (LMs) may memorize personally identifiable information (PII) from training data, enabling adversaries to extract it during inference. Existing defense mechanisms such as differential privacy (DP) reduce this leakage, but incur large drops in utility. Based on a comprehensive study using circuit discovery to identify the computational circuits responsible PII leakage in LMs, we hypothesize that specific PII leakage circuits in LMs should be responsible for this behavior. Therefor…

Responsible AI Technical Report
KT, :, Soonmin Bae, Wanjin Park, Jeongyeop Kim, Yunjin Park, Jungwon Yoon, Junhyung Moon, Myunggyo Oh, Wonhyuk Lee, Junseo Jang, Dongyoung Jung, Minwook Ju, Eunmi Kim, Sujin Kim, Youngchol Kim, Somin Lee, Wonyoung Lee, Minsung Noh, Hyoungjun Park, Eunyoung Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20057

Responsible AI Technical Report
KT developed a Responsible AI (RAI) assessment methodology and risk mitigation technologies to ensure the safety and reliability of AI services. By analyzing the Basic Act on AI implementation and global AI governance trends, we established a unique approach for regulatory compliance and systematically identify and manage all potential risk factors from AI development to operation. We present a reliable assessment methodology that systematically verifies model safety and robustness based on KT'…

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115541855912936152
Education towards responsible behaviour is always good, but trying to solve a problem by changing something other than what caused it is deflection.
(And kids should be lead to become …

Y'all posting your aurora pictures... There are times I wish I spent more time back up north! Meanwhile, I'm glad I got my ham radio fix yesterday hunting a little bit of POTA, because the CME was responsible for more than the aurora... https://solar.w5mmw.net/

"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Nadia Nahar, Chenyang Yang, Yanxin Chen, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Ken Holstein, Motahhare Eslami, Christian K\"astner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22858

"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Responsible AI (RAI) tools -- checklists, templates, and governance processes -- often engage RAI champions, individuals intrinsically motivated to advocate ethical practices, but fail to reach non-champions, who frequently dismiss them as bureaucratic tasks. To explore this gap, we shadowed meetings and interviewed data scientists at an organization, finding that practitioners perceived RAI as irrelevant to their work. Building on these insights and theoretical foundations, we derived design p…

.gov #DNS notes
On 2025-01-19 there were two "biden" names, bidenlibrary and bidenwhitehouse. Not so unusual. Associated names for Obama and Trump were also there and remain still. These are exec branch names but the agency responsible for them is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
As of today, there are four additional "trump" labels in the …

“The fact…GOP is unwilling to defend…role of…GOP-controlled Congress is…GOP’s problem to solve.”
“…Republican Congress &…Trump administration made this bed; they, across all 3 branches, are fully responsible for…crash of…constitutional system; & until Mike Johnson & John Thune figure out how they’re going to preserve & enforce…literal force of law…appropriations bills are supposed to have…hard to see why Democrats…should vote to enable ongoing lawlessness.”

There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …

Exposed: White nationalist group responsible for hate spree across Chicagoland
Members of the Windy City Active Club include a USPS worker, a recent finance grad from DePaul, and a Polish American tied to other hate groups.

we are the clapton, always anti-fascist, fuck the terf FA, LET THEM PLAY
#claptoncfc #ccfc #ftfa #fedifc

Nearly 60% of Ukrainians see Zelensky as responsible for his associate's role in major corruption scandal, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/nearly-of-ukrainians-see-zelensky.html

"Humanity faces an acute crisis. It is not only a political and technological crisis, but an ethical and theological/religious crisis. Are we members of creation who are morally responsible for how we treat our fellow creatures, or are we masters who may act with impunity towards nature? Ultimately the survival of life as we know it is at stake."
—YDS Dean Greg Sterling in his article in the new issue of Reflections

from my link log —
What does pointer provenance have to do with RCU?
https://people.kernel.org/paulmck/what-on-earth-does-lifetime-end-pointer-zap-have-to-do-with-rcu
saved 2025-10-03

What on Earth Does Pointer Provenance Have to do With RCU?
TL;DR: Unless you are doing very strange things with RCU (read-copy update), not much!!! So why has the guy most responsible for Linux-k...

Spinning into the Gap - Direct-horizon Collapse as the Origin of GW231123 from End-to-end General-relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations: #BlackHoles Explained: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/10/mysterious-impossible-merger-of-two-massive-black-holes-explained/ - a comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously thought to be largely off-limits.

Google sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, behind an alleged US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-sues…

Google sues Chinese scam ring over E-ZPass, USPS phishing texts
Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent to Americans this year.

I am a responsible kitty and can be trusted with your items near the edge of a table.

China claims it caught US attempting cyberattack on national time center https://therecord.media/china-attack-national-time-center

Towards Responsible Evaluation for Text-to-Speech
Yifan Yang, Hui Wang, Bing Han, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Yong Qin, Xie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06927 https://

Towards Responsible Evaluation for Text-to-Speech
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have enabled systems to produce human-indistinguishable speech, bringing benefits across accessibility, content creation, and human-computer interaction. However, current evaluation practices are increasingly inadequate for capturing the full range of capabilities, limitations, and societal implications. This position paper introduces the concept of Responsible Evaluation and argues that it is essential and urgent for the next phase of TTS deve…

omg this could be so great. The guy responsible for “Liquid Glass” is gone from Apple. Maybe in the coming years we’ll see a retreat from this very bad design style from MacOS & iOS and a refocusing on good UI principles. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115659146746706644

omg this could be so great. The guy responsible for “Liquid Glass” is gone from Apple. Maybe in the coming years we’ll see a retreat from this very bad design style from MacOS & iOS and a refocusing on good UI principles. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115659146746706644

The game, anoraks.2.0.0.tgz, will be available from sunsite until somebody
responsible notices it and deletes it, and shortly from
ftp.mee.tcd.ie/pub/Brian, though they don't know that yet.
-- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb@tcd.ie

Come on, now. Be responsible.

Given the reticence of its local affiliates to mention it's name, one could get the impression that ACT, the NZ Initiative, Curia, the NZ Taxpayers' 'Union', and the 'Free Speech' 'Union' are keen to avoid drawing attention to their Atlas Network (also responsible for the US' Project 2025) affiliation. Could it be they're keen to avoid more scrutiny of where their funding comes from? 🤔 Assuming their search is trustworthy, on the RNZ website, there'…

A sore runner is a sad runner.

An Adaptive Responsible AI Governance Framework for Decentralized Organizations
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Anka Reuel, Gabriela Aranguiz-Dias, Hatim Rahama, Ala-Eddine Ayadi, Xavier Boullier, J\'er\'emy Verdo, Louis Montanie, Mykel Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03368

An Adaptive Responsible AI Governance Framework for Decentralized Organizations
This paper examines the assessment challenges of Responsible AI (RAI) governance efforts in globally decentralized organizations through a case study collaboration between a leading research university and a multinational enterprise. While there are many proposed frameworks for RAI, their application in complex organizational settings with distributed decision-making authority remains underexplored. Our RAI assessment, conducted across multiple business units and AI use cases, reveals four key …

I can’t overstate how seriously fucked up Ruby Central is.
They’re responsible for one of the software industry’s major supply chains in the form of RubyGems.org.
And they’re admitting to not knowing who has access to the passwords for their systems and not knowing who has downloaded logs.
Homer Simpson is more competent than that.

🤦🏾 Cuba blames online news site ‘elTOQUE’ for the country’s economic chaos
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/cuba-blames-online-news-site-eltoque-for-the-countrys-economic-chaos.html

Cuba blames online news site ‘elTOQUE’ for the country’s economic chaos 
The independent website publishes a daily exchange currency tracker that the authorities are holding responsible for destabilizing an already struggling economy

Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop "responsible" AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/spotif…

Spotify Partners With Sony, Universal, Warner to Develop AI Products
Spotify has announced a partnership with Sony, Universal, Warner and more to develop AI music products intended to empower artists and songwriters.

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Leon Panetta on New Yorker Radio Hour: asked to express his greatest worry explicitly given his broader and deeper knowledge of foreign affairs, he names the dysfunction of American Democracy.
That’s after having mentioned all the external crises we currently face overseas. He made the excellent point that our inability to handle our own business (e.g. immigration, health care, taxation) in a responsible way threatens our global credibility & security.
(He’s right)

"An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Pollution

An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack
Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are now pushing back.

Reproducibility: The New Frontier in AI Governance
Israel Mason-Williams, Gabryel Mason-Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Reproducibility: The New Frontier in AI Governance
AI policymakers are responsible for delivering effective governance mechanisms that can provide safe, aligned and trustworthy AI development. However, the information environment offered to policymakers is characterised by an unnecessarily low Signal-To-Noise Ratio, favouring regulatory capture and creating deep uncertainty and divides on which risks should be prioritised from a governance perspective. We posit that the current publication speeds in AI combined with the lack of strong scientifi…

EU’s top court rules that online marketplaces are responsible for processing of data in ads https://therecord.media/eu-top-court-rules-online-marketplaces-responsible-for-data-processing-ads

No, Trump did not 'end' the war in the Congo. It's as bloody as ever. | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congo-trump-end-war/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[3/5]:
- Responsible AI Technical Report
, , Park, Yoon, Moon, Oh, Lee, Kim, Kim, Park, Shin, Lee, Lee, Ju, Noh, Jeong, Kim, Park, Bae

Folks, @… is in Egypt with her kids, living under very hard conditions as her husband is stuck in Gaza. We helped her husband and the seven families they’re responsible for move South with the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal last week but Abeer still needs ongoing help to feed her family in Egypt and send money to Gaza for her husband to do the same.

Who is responsible? Social Identity, Robot Errors and Blame Attribution
Samantha Stedtler, Marianna Leventi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01862 https://arxiv.…

Who is responsible? Social Identity, Robot Errors and Blame Attribution
This paper argues that conventional blame practices fall short of capturing the complexity of moral experiences, neglecting power dynamics and discriminatory social practices. It is evident that robots, embodying roles linked to specific social groups, pose a risk of reinforcing stereotypes of how these groups behave or should behave, so they set a normative and descriptive standard. In addition, we argue that faulty robots might create expectations of who is supposed to compensate and repair a…

Responsible Diffusion: A Comprehensive Survey on Safety, Ethics, and Trust in Diffusion Models
Kang Wei, Xin Yuan, Fushuo Huo, Chuan Ma, Long Yuan, Songze Li, Ming Ding, Dacheng Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22723

Responsible Diffusion: A Comprehensive Survey on Safety, Ethics, and Trust in Diffusion Models
Diffusion models (DMs) have been investigated in various domains due to their ability to generate high-quality data, thereby attracting significant attention. However, similar to traditional deep learning systems, there also exist potential threats to DMs. To provide advanced and comprehensive insights into safety, ethics, and trust in DMs, this survey comprehensively elucidates its framework, threats, and countermeasures. Each threat and its countermeasures are systematically examined and cate…

I hope Belgiums understands the geopolitical priorities and doesn't want to be responsible for weakening Ukraine in it's fight against Russia.
https://www.politico.eu/article/imf-ukraine-russia-loan-eu-financial-support-war-economy/…

IMF support for Ukraine hinges on Russian assets loan, EU warns
Brussels fears the IMF could cancel aid unless Belgium agrees to back a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine.

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells #health

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible for destroying infected or abnormal cells. As anxiety severity increased, NK cell levels dropped even further, suggesting a stress-driven weakening of immune defenses.

On the false election between regulation and innovation. Ideas for regulation through the responsible use of artificial intelligence in research and education.[Spanish version]
Pompeu Casanovas (IIIA-CSIC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07268

On the false election between regulation and innovation. Ideas for regulation through the responsible use of artificial intelligence in research and education.[Spanish version]
This short essay is a reworking of the answers offered by the author at the Debate Session of the AIHUB (CSIC) and EduCaixa Summer School, organized by Marta Garcia-Matos and Lissette Lemus, and coordinated by Albert Sabater (OEIAC, UG), with the participation of Vanina Martinez-Posse (IIIA-CSIC), Eulalia Soler (Eurecat) and Pompeu Casanovas (IIIA-CSIC) on July 4th 2025. Albert Sabater posed three questions: (1) How can regulatory frameworks priori-tise the protection of fundamental rights (pri…

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Last month, DHS claimed that ICE had shot and killed “a criminal illegal alien with a history of reckless driving,” while trying to detain him
—but a closer look found that the man had no criminal history, and his last traffic violation was in 2013.
DHS also claimed that the ICE agent responsible for the shooting had been “seriously injured” in the line of duty,
but bodycam videos from shortly after the incident showed the agent describing his injuries as
“nothing m…

“Do Something B*tch”: Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester
The Department of Homeland Security initially said the agent had shot the woman five times in self-defense.

🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotechnology-crop-munching-pests-beneficial.html

Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
A bane of farmers' existence, it's estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of up to 40% of pre-harvest yields globally. But a new generation of crop treatments that target only "bad" bugs could mean big gains for the Canadian agriculture sector, improving pest management tools in an industry that in 2024 generated over $142 billion.

Beware: The Zombie War on Terror is upon us | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zombie-war-on-terror/

Russian-speaking ransomware gang Qilin says it was responsible for an attack on Japan's Asahi and stole ~27GB of data, including financial docs and contracts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-08/…

According to AhnLab, the N. Korean Lazarus Group, responsible for the recent massive theft from crypto exchange Upbit, has engaged in 31 cyberattacks, followed by DPRK's Kimsuky, which has launched 27 cyberattacks, over the past year.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20251130001000315<…

Putin is not the only one responsible for the war! – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/putin-is-not-the-only.html

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/big-oil-isnt-part-of-the-clean-energy-push-despite-its-claims-study-shows/

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

The world continues to dawdle politically in its response to the climate crisis
but clean energy is booming,
-- responsible for almost all new energy capacity and drawing double the investment of fossil fuels globally. The market has shifted.
Most starkly, though, Trump has become the planet’s foremost advocate of fossil fuels,
throwing the might of the US presidency into a rearguard battle to keep the world mired in the era of combusted carbon.
There is now no …

🌟 Astrocytes are superstars in the game of long-term memory
#memory

Astrocytes are superstars in the game of long-term memory
Why are we able to recall only some of our past experiences? A new study led by Jun Nagai at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan has an answer. Surprisingly, it turns out that the brain cells responsible for stabilizing memories aren't neurons. Rather, they are astrocytes, a type of glial cell that is usually thought of as a role player in the game of learning and memory.

Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/isw-polymarket-ukraine-war-map/

Supreme Court hearing challenge to Trump’s sweeping tariffs policy
The Supreme Court is not being asked to pass judgment on the wisdom of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
-- The market is responsible for rendering that verdict.
So far, it’s a negative one.
One big question facing the justices is whether Trump’s tariffs violate a Supreme Court standard called the
“major questions doctrine.”
The doctrine, which the justices recognized in a 2022 case,
posits …

Supreme Court debates legality of Trump’s tariffs
The closely watched case could have major implications for global trade, the U.S. economy and Americans’ pocketbooks.

US gov't admits F-35 is a failure | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/f-35-failure/