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Drop Site uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-miss

Samsung names mobile chief TM Roh as co-CEO and DX division head; Roh was serving as consumer business acting head since April after co-CEO Han Jong-Hee's death (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/samsung-el…

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

What had saved Charles Dutton was prison.
He dropped out of school at 12 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter at 17, after stabbing a black man who had pulled a knife on him in a fight.
He served two years.
Then he was sent back for weapons possession, fought with a white guard, and ended up serving another seven and a half.
The tale of his redemption is well known.
He grabbed an anthology of plays by black playwrights on his way into solitary confinement one day…

Well worth a read.
https://kyivindependent.com/we-are-f-king-fascists-pussy-riot-memoir-looks-at-everything-wrong-with-russia/

‘We are f–king fascists’ — Pussy Riot memoir looks at everything wrong with Russia
Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy Riot punk group members “arrived in a different country.” Outwardly, Russia sought to convey to the world during this period that it was a serious global power through events such as the Sochi Winter Olympics. The reality, as Alyokhina writes, was completely different: just a few months lat…

Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc

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.

Chicken fettucine alfredo for dinner. Made the pasta. Next up is to make the alfredo sauce. Chicken strips are ready to cook along with the mushrooms and garlic.
If energetic, I may also do up a few strips of bacon and crumble on the top of each serving.
Dessert is double chocolate ice cream for the wife and a mini pumpkin pie (all homemade) for me.

Dario Amodei addresses "inaccurate claims" about Anthropic's policy stances after David Sacks said the "real issue" is "Anthropic's agenda to backdoor Woke AI" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/anthropic-ceo-trump-s…

Anthropic CEO disputes Trump AI czar David Sacks' claims that company is 'woke'
The company has faced repeated criticism from David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, in recent days.

The official Xubuntu website was compromised over the weekend (18/19 October 2025) briefly serving up Windows malware to users trying to download the distro.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/xubuntu-website-malware-hack

Xubuntu Website Compromised, Served Malware Downloads - OMG! Ubuntu
The official Xubuntu website briefly served Windows malware to users trying to download the distro between 18-19 October. ISOs were not affected.

Bench-RNR: Dataset for Benchmarking Repetitive and Non-repetitive Scanning LiDAR for Infrastructure-based Vehicle Localization
Runxin Zhao, Chunxiang Wang, Hanyang Zhuang, Ming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15583

Bench-RNR: Dataset for Benchmarking Repetitive and Non-repetitive Scanning LiDAR for Infrastructure-based Vehicle Localization
Vehicle localization using roadside LiDARs can provide centimeter-level accuracy for cloud-controlled vehicles while simultaneously serving multiple vehicles, enhanc-ing safety and efficiency. While most existing studies rely on repetitive scanning LiDARs, non-repetitive scanning LiDAR offers advantages such as eliminating blind zones and being more cost-effective. However, its application in roadside perception and localization remains limited. To address this, we present a dataset for infrast…

Christoph Schneider, Prime Video Germany's Country Director since 2022, is leaving Amazon after 13 years due to an internal restructure that eliminates his role (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/prime-video-germany-christoph-s…

Prime Video Germany’s Long-Serving Chief Christoph Schneider Stepping Down
Christoph Schneider, Prime Video's country chief in Germany, is leaving Amazon after 13 years.

Analysis Plug-and-Play Methods for Imaging Inverse Problems
Edward P. Chandler, Shirin Shoushtari, Brendt Wohlberg, Ulugbek S. Kamilov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15422 https://

Analysis Plug-and-Play Methods for Imaging Inverse Problems
Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied directly in the image domain, serving as an implicit prior on natural images. This paper considers an alternative analysis formulation of PnP, in which the prior is imposed on a transformed representation of the image, such as its gradient. Specifically, we trai…

FYI, you can make flan with lactose-free milk.

I want to see Cloudflare screen of death somewhere outside. Like some huge screen serving ads in the city centre or showing metro departure times on the station. This *must* be happening somewhere in the world.

Peanuts: Health Benefits, Nutrients per Serving, How to Use, and More | WebMD
https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-peanuts

Health Benefits of Peanuts
Peanuts are a high-protein, nutrient-rich snack. Eating peanuts might help you live longer too. Learn how they can help everything from inflammation to weight loss.

Great comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…

This should definitely extend to the menus on the private jets of the delegates. https://pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/115516457952130369

#caturday https://www.boredpanda.com/cute-funny-cats-pics/?cexp_id=137699&cexp_var=18&_f=homepage_featured

80 Hilarious And Weird Cats To Bless Your Day
They’ve clawed their way into our screens, hearts and possibly even our furniture. Cats the unofficial rulers of the digital world. And we wouldn’t be surprised if they’re secretly plotting to take over the real world too. These feisty felines have been serving looks, chaos and unexpected comedy for centuries. You don’t have to be […]

FlexPipe: Adapting Dynamic LLM Serving Through Inflight Pipeline Refactoring in Fragmented Serverless Clusters
Yanying Lin, Shijie Peng, Chengzhi Lu, Chengzhong Xu, Kejiang Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11938

FlexPipe: Adapting Dynamic LLM Serving Through Inflight Pipeline Refactoring in Fragmented Serverless Clusters
Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) in production faces significant challenges from highly variable request patterns and severe resource fragmentation in serverless clusters. Current systems rely on static pipeline configurations that struggle to adapt to dynamic workload conditions, leading to substantial inefficiencies. We present FlexPipe, a novel system that dynamically reconfigures pipeline architectures during runtime to address these fundamental limitations. FlexPipe decomposes models i…

Grounded AI for Code Review: Resource-Efficient Large-Model Serving in Enterprise Pipelines
Sayan Mandal, Hua Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10290 https://

Grounded AI for Code Review: Resource-Efficient Large-Model Serving in Enterprise Pipelines
Automated code review adoption lags in compliance-heavy settings, where static analyzers produce high-volume, low-rationale outputs, and naive LLM use risks hallucination and incurring cost overhead. We present a production system for grounded, PR-native review that pairs static-analysis findings with AST-guided context extraction and a single-GPU, on-demand serving stack (quantized open-weight model, multi-tier caching) to deliver concise explanations and remediation guidance. Evaluated on saf…

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3329

Alibaba Cloud claims to slash Nvidia GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
The new Aegaeon system can serve dozens of large language models using a fraction of the GPUs previously required, potentially reshaping AI workloads.

The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue: #PHANGS

Outstanding if chilling episode of
Krigens dŸgn direct from Kyiv.
Worth a watch especially for the interview with serving chief of staff from #Ukraine army.
The future of warfare, the robot wars, is already here. Ukraine is fighting it.
Dread to think what happens if they lose.
https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/krigens-doegn_-saerudgave-fra-kyiv_552789

South Carolina bars atheist from serving as election worker unless he swears oath to God
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/south-carolina-bars-atheist-from

🚫 PLEASE STOP USING SPOTIFY! 🚫
Spotify is serving you ICE cream dressed in Gestapo!
You can join the revolution at https://bandcamp.com, but I already know what you’ll whine:
“Oh nooo, but my faaaavorite artist isn’t on Bandcamp! How will I eeeever survive without them?! I’m sooo devastated, this is th…

ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.

Trends in New Mexico School Districts Serving Low-Income Communities
Uloma E. Nelson, Onyedikachi J. Okeke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09993 https://arxiv.o…

Trends in New Mexico School Districts Serving Low-Income Communities
This study examines recent enrollment trends and their socioeconomic drivers within New Mexico's public school districts, with a specific focus on those serving low-income communities. Utilizing a mixed-methods geospatial framework, the research integrates longitudinal enrollment data, district poverty metrics from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), and neighborhood context from the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2019 to 2023. The analysis reveals that while statewide K-…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@Geri/115550155236305491
There is no end to the irresponsibility, venality, and gullibility of our politicians. They depend for their 'political donations' on serving the ultra-rich, and they do it without hesitation or rem…

Again I'm confused at the human urge to pretend something is way more automated than it really is. Examples:
- Robot 'chef' that only automates the very least time-consuming part of cooking, serving no purpose but to slow things down: https://post.lurk.org/@jonty@chaos.soc

These Republicans oppose DEI, but also cuts hitting Hispanic-serving colleges (Rachel Hatzipanagos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/30/hispanic-serving-institutions-republican-support/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p70#a251030p70

Was at an event this weekend where https://safehavenpfoa.org/ had a table advertising their animal shelter and selling merch.
But I'm not sure how much I'd want a PFOA towel... Do they have a PFAS free version? :p

Since Ghislaine Maxwell’scontroversial transfer to a low-security prison camp this summer,
her time at Texas’s FPC Bryan has prompted uproar over alleged favorable treatment
– including claims this week that she was provided custom-made meals and access to a puppy
Some of the recent accusations were in a 9 November letter that Jamie Raskin sent to Donald Trump.
The Democratic representative’s letter, which cited whistleblower information, demanded answers about Maxwel…

Efficient LLM Inference over Heterogeneous Edge Networks with Speculative Decoding
Bingjie Zhu, Zhixiong Chen, Liqiang Zhao, Hyundong Shin, Arumugam Nallanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11331

Efficient LLM Inference over Heterogeneous Edge Networks with Speculative Decoding
Large language model (LLM) inference at the network edge is a promising serving paradigm that leverages distributed edge resources to run inference near users and enhance privacy. Existing edge-based LLM inference systems typically adopt autoregressive decoding (AD), which only generates one token per forward pass. This iterative process, compounded by the limited computational resources of edge nodes, results in high serving latency and constrains the system's ability to support multiple users…

Ah, another "Serve The Home" review! What will it be this time? Another qnap with 12x 32TB NVMe, or a Broadcom switch with 16 1.6Tbps ports?
(whose homes are we serving here??)

view from my window

Trump is a big loser.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/alina-habba-new-jersey-3rd-circuit

Virginia Tech coaching search: Bruce Arians, Super Bowl winner and former Hokies QB, serving as consultant

https://www.cbssports.com/college-foo…

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs Graduates From Alabama While in Prison https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/henry-ruggs-graduates-alabama-prison/

Ahhwm almost forgot that it is #MountainMonday ! So I quickly discarded my previous idea and share another photo from Saturday's #hiking adventure.
I was a bit surprised by the chill wind at the top but I had a great day. The best is that it was also quite some training for my legs a…

How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump https://www.404media.co/how-surveillance-firms-use-democracy-as-a-cover-for-serving-ice-and-trump/

Lightweight CNN-Based Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection Using 2D Traffic Representations
Rayed Suhail Ahmad, Rehan Ahmad, Quamar Niyaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11898 https://

Lightweight CNN-Based Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection Using 2D Traffic Representations
Wi-Fi networks are ubiquitous in both home and enterprise environments, serving as a primary medium for Internet access and forming the backbone of modern IoT ecosystems. However, their inherent vulnerabilities, combined with widespread adoption, create opportunities for malicious actors to gain unauthorized access or compromise sensitive data stored on connected devices. To address these challenges, we propose a deep learning based network intrusion detection system (NIDS) for Wi-Fi environmen…

The work of our alums is one of the most inspiring expressions of our commitment to serving church and world. And no event showcases that quite like our annual alumni awards.
If you couldn't be with us for our recent Convocation & Reunions, or you want to relive the moment, here's video of the 2025 awards ceremony and Andover Newton's Spirit of the Hill award presentation.

On the Walsh spectra of quadratic APN functions
Sophie Hannah B\'en\'eteau, Nicolas Goluboff, Lukas K\"olsch, Divyesh Vaghasiya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12008 htt…

On the Walsh spectra of quadratic APN functions
APN functions play a central role as building blocks in the design of many block ciphers, serving as optimal functions to resist differential attacks. One of the most important properties of APN functions is their linearity, which is directly related to the Walsh spectrum of the function. In this paper, we establish two novel connections that allow us to derive strong conditions on the Walsh spectra of quadratic APN functions. We prove that the Walsh transform of a quadratic APN function $F$ op…

I've heard that some people are treating soup as a first dish, and then eat dinner proper.
I can't imagine how people can fit another meal after, say, a solid serving of pea soup.

#Federal Appeals court upholds the prior disqualification of Prez #Drumpf's former personal attorney Alina Habba from serving as the US attorney for #NewJersey

Appeals court upholds disqualification of Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey
President Trump nominated her to the role without Senate confirmation.

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

From Principles to Practice: A Systematic Study of LLM Serving on Multi-core NPUs
Tianhao Zhu, Dahu Feng, Erhu Feng, Yubin Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05632 https://

From Principles to Practice: A Systematic Study of LLM Serving on Multi-core NPUs
With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the demand for high-performance LLM inference services continues to grow. To meet this demand, a growing number of AI accelerators have been proposed, such as Google TPU, Huawei NPU, Graphcore IPU, and Cerebras WSE, etc. Most of these accelerators adopt multi-core architectures to achieve enhanced scalability, but lack the flexibility of SIMT architectures. Therefore, without careful configuration of the hardware architecture, as wel…

Again I'm confused at the human urge to pretend something is way more automated than it really is. Examples:
- Robot 'chef' that only automates the very least time-consuming part of cooking, serving no purpose but to slow things down: https://post.lurk.org/@jonty@chaos.soc

*half* a cookie is a serving??
monsters!

I was featured in the local paper, the "Wiesbadener Kurier," on Wednesday.
I put an English translation of the article in the Alt-Text area of the first screen capture.

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

Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tencent-name…

Tencent Names Former OpenAI Researcher Chief AI Scientist
Tencent Holdings internally announced that Yao Shunyu, a researcher who joined from OpenAI in September, is now serving as a chief AI scientist overseeing the Chinese tech giant’s large language model department as well as its newly established AI infrastructure department, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Yao’s major role, part of Tencent’s office of the CEO and president,

When it's game night but you don't feel like cooking
#food

Orders in Chaos: Enhancing Large-Scale MoE LLM Serving with Data Movement Forecasting
Zhongkai Yu, Yue Guan, Zihao Yu, Chenyang Zhou, Shuyi Pei, Yangwook Kang, Yufei Ding, Po-An Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05497

Orders in Chaos: Enhancing Large-Scale MoE LLM Serving with Data Movement Forecasting
Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures achieve remarkable performance improvements, but their random expert selection mechanism introduces significant data movement overhead that becomes the dominant bottleneck in multi-unit serving systems. To forecast the patterns underlying this data movement, we conduct comprehensive data-movement-centric profiling across three state-of-the-art large-scale MoE models (200B- 671B) using over 24,000 requests spanning diverse …

Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/another-trump-appointed-u-s-attorney-found-to-be-serving-unlawfully-federal-judge-rules/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p156#a251028p156

Nova: Real-Time Agentic Vision-Language Model Serving with Adaptive Cross-Stage Parallelization
Yuhang Xu, Shengzhong Liu, Dong Zhang, Bingheng Yan, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21301

Nova: Real-Time Agentic Vision-Language Model Serving with Adaptive Cross-Stage Parallelization
This paper presents Nova, a real-time scheduling framework for serving agentic vision-language models (VLMs) on a single GPU with balanced per-request latency and overall request process throughput. Our design begins by enabling effective pipelining across vision encode, LLM prefill, and LLM decode stages of VLMs, by exploiting their heterogeneous resource demands during execution and incorporating elastic GPU spatial partitioning among stages to maximally utilize the compute and memory resourc…

Relationship among Structural, Disordered, Magnetism and Band Topology in MnSb2Te4(Sb2Te3)n Family
Ming Xi, Yuchong Zhang, Wenju Zhou, Famin Chen, Donghan Jia, Huiyang Gou, Tian Qian, Hechang Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09973

Relationship among Structural, Disordered, Magnetism and Band Topology in MnSb2Te4(Sb2Te3)n Family
Interplay between topology and magnetism induces various exotic quantum phenomena, with magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) serving as a prominent example due to their ability to host the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). However, the realization of QAHE at higher temperature approaching magnetic-transition-temperature remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the scarcity of suitable material platforms and limited understanding of the intricate relationships between band topolog…

Comparative Performance Analysis of Modern NoSQL Data Technologies: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly
Deep Bodra, Sushil Khairnar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08863 https://

Comparative Performance Analysis of Modern NoSQL Data Technologies: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly
The rise of distributed applications and cloud computing has created a demand for scalable, high-performance key-value storage systems. This paper presents a performance evaluation of three prominent NoSQL key-value stores: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly, using the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) framework. We conducted extensive experiments across three distinct workload patterns (read-heavy, write-heavy), and balanced while systematically varying client concurrency from 1 to 32 clients…

I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before #Spotify started serving #ICE as “free content.”
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Spreading fronts: numerical simulations on discrete models and continuous equations
J. M. Marcos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11324 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Spreading fronts: numerical simulations on discrete models and continuous equations
Out-of-equilibrium systems, inherently complex and challenging to understand, are prevalent across various disciplines, including physics where they arise in contexts such as fluid dynamics. In particular, critical out-of-equilibrium systems combine this complexity with the scaling laws and universality classes observed in critical phenomena, with kinetic surface roughening, the study of how a flat surface becomes progressively rougher over time, serving as a prime example. This behavior manife…

Andy #Cuomo is a racist shit stain and his concession speech demonstrates his hypocrisy. No racism in #NYC unless he’s serving it I guess.

Airports in more than a half-dozen U.S. markets have declined to display a video in which
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem blames congressional Democrats for the government shutdown and any related travel delays,
citing the political nature of its content, according to local authorities.

Officials that oversee airports serving Buffalo, Charlotte, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle and Portland, Oregon,
said the video could violate internal policies tha…

Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints
Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

That's sad: what was far and away my favorite restaurant during last year's visit to Portland (Ore.) closed. Brunch-serving vegan diners are a particular type of place I love that seems to be an endangered species these days, cf Beach'N in SF, also closed this year.

One of Portland’s oldest vegan-friendly restaurants has closed
“We can no long sustain operations and have served the final plate,” the restaurant announces.

I'm thankful for the remaining moral & ethical people faithfully serving the American people in the Federal government - against all odds.
▶️ 10 Things To Be Thankful For | The West Wing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nj-SBGQVQ9Q&si=7EjBQnzPNPdSglQQ

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful US immigrants
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/08/in-private-audience-pope-leo-encourages-latino-catholics-ministering-to-fearful-u-s-immigrants/

Netflix is making its video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices like Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/netflix…

Two things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.

Self-Consistent Fourier-Tschebyshev Representations of the First Normal Stress Difference in Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
Nicholas King, Eugene Pashkovski, Reid Patterson, Paige Rockwell, Gareth H. McKinley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09453

Self-Consistent Fourier-Tschebyshev Representations of the First Normal Stress Difference in Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) is a key technique for characterizing nonlinear viscoelasticity in a wide range of materials. Most research to date has focused on the shear stress response to an oscillatory strain input. However, for highly elastic materials such as polymer melts, the time-varying first normal stress difference $N_1(t;ω,γ_0)$ can become much larger than the shear stress at sufficiently large strains, serving as a sensitive probe of the material's nonlinear characteri…

MetaBreak: Jailbreaking Online LLM Services via Special Token Manipulation
Wentian Zhu, Zhen Xiang, Wei Niu, Le Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10271 https://

MetaBreak: Jailbreaking Online LLM Services via Special Token Manipulation
Unlike regular tokens derived from existing text corpora, special tokens are artificially created to annotate structured conversations during the fine-tuning process of Large Language Models (LLMs). Serving as metadata of training data, these tokens play a crucial role in instructing LLMs to generate coherent and context-aware responses. We demonstrate that special tokens can be exploited to construct four attack primitives, with which malicious users can reliably bypass the internal safety ali…

Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with Tiered Monolithic 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient MoE Serving
Yue Pan, Zihan Xia, Po-Kai Hsu, Lanxiang Hu, Hyungyo Kim, Janak Sharda, Minxuan Zhou, Nam Sung Kim, Shimeng Yu, Tajana Rosing, Mingu Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05245

Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with Tiered Monolithic 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient MoE Serving
As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as a prevailing design for achieving state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of tasks. MoE models use sparse gating to activate only a handful of expert sub-networks per input, achieving billion-parameter capacity with inference costs akin to much smaller models. However, such models often pose challenges for hardware deployment due to the massive data volume introduced by the MoE laye…

TridentServe: A Stage-level Serving System for Diffusion Pipelines
Yifei Xia, Fangcheng Fu, Hao Yuan, Hanke Zhang, Xupeng Miao, Yijun Liu, Suhan Ling, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02838

TridentServe: A Stage-level Serving System for Diffusion Pipelines
Diffusion pipelines, renowned for their powerful visual generation capabilities, have seen widespread adoption in generative vision tasks (e.g., text-to-image/video). These pipelines typically follow an encode--diffuse--decode three-stage architecture. Current serving systems deploy diffusion pipelines within a static, manual, and pipeline-level paradigm, allocating the same resources to every request and stage. However, through an in-depth analysis, we find that such a paradigm is inefficient …

Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters,
a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines
— even though the president's pardon power ionly applies to federal crimes. 
https://www.

Trump pardons jailed ex-Colorado election official Tina Peters, but she was charged in state court
President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

the food truck in the parking lot of the marathon station on the corner of washtenaw and golfside is AMAZING!!!!!!!

Fucking amazing. Not surprising at all coming from such unfuckable losers, but still amazing.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115503363869254443

2026 NFL mock draft: Serving up first-round projections as playoff picture comes into focus this Thanksgiving

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-dr…

Former president of Honduras, convicted of trafficking, freed after Trump pardon

Juan Orlando Hernšndez was serving a 45-year sentence over drug trafficking.
Following a pardon from President Donald Trump, he has been released
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/

Former president of Honduras, convicted of trafficking, freed after Trump pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández was serving a 45-year sentence over drug trafficking. Following a pardon from President Donald Trump, he has been released.

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-pushing-sanctioned-russian-propaganda/

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

Andy #Cuomo is a racist shit stain and his concession speech demonstrates his hypocrisy. No racism in #NYC unless he’s serving it I guess.

Netflix is making its video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices like Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/netflix…

A Predictive and Synergistic Two-Layer Scheduling Framework for LLM Serving
Yue Zhang, Yuansheng Chen, Xuan Mo, Alex Xi, Jialun Li, WeiGang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23384 h…

A Predictive and Synergistic Two-Layer Scheduling Framework for LLM Serving
LLM inference serving typically scales out with a two-tier architecture: a cluster router distributes requests to multiple inference engines, each of which then in turn performs its own internal scheduling. However, this commonly used paradigm suffers from critical, systemic inefficiency caused by the information gaps across two layers. At the cluster-layer, the router mainly relies on lagging, coarse-grained metrics, such as average latency and queue length to make decisions, resulting in "dec…

The most up-to-date light curve of interstellar comet #ATLAS - https://x.com/AsteroidEnergy/status/1983707109045989551 - with sparse data points all the way to perihelion, https://bsky.app/profile/kwalsh4a.bsky.social/post/3m4bwiczncs2z from PUNCH serving the latest. So as seen from Earth the brightness is about 9.5 mag. - and should still be 10.something when the comet can be observed from the ground again, from about 10 November onwards.

Saints work out former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker after serving 10-game suspension, per reports

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-tucker-saints-ravens-kicker-allegations/

Olivia Nuzzi's Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It's So Much Worse Than That. (Scaachi Koul/Slate)
https://slate.com/culture/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-donald-trump-ryan-lizza-book.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p134#a251202p134

it’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from.
In just the past two weeks, in Chicago alone, it’s all too easy to find accounts and videos of federal immigration authorities committing wanton violencerather than serving the public.
On the city’s South Side, an apartment building was stormed in a late-night, military-style raid, with dozens of residents dragged indiscriminately from their beds and homes. Witnesses said the…

The Chicago ICE raids prove Trump doesn't care about keeping the country safe
Trump's immigration rhetoric is attracting the worst kind of ICE recruit.

SparseServe: Unlocking Parallelism for Dynamic Sparse Attention in Long-Context LLM Serving
Qihui Zhou, Peiqi Yin, Pengfei Zuo, James Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24626 http…

SparseServe: Unlocking Parallelism for Dynamic Sparse Attention in Long-Context LLM Serving
Serving long-context LLMs is costly because attention computation grows linearly with context length. Dynamic sparse attention algorithms (DSAs) mitigate this by attending only to the key-value (KV) cache of critical tokens. However, with DSAs, the main performance bottleneck shifts from HBM bandwidth to HBM capacity: KV caches for unselected tokens must remain in HBM for low-latency decoding, constraining parallel batch size and stalling further throughput gains. Offloading these underutilized…

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

New #Pixelfed Post:
#Fediverse

Expert-as-a-Service: Towards Efficient, Scalable, and Robust Large-scale MoE Serving
Ziming Liu, Boyu Tian, Guoteng Wang, Zhen Jiang, Peng Sun, Zhenhua Han, Tian Tang, Xiaohe Hu, Yanmin Jia, Yan Zhang, He Liu, Mingjun Zhang, Yiqi Zhang, Qiaoling Chen, Shenggan Cheng, Mingyu Gao, Yang You, Siyuan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17863…

Expert-as-a-Service: Towards Efficient, Scalable, and Robust Large-scale MoE Serving
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models challenge serving infrastructures with dynamic, sparse expert utilization, causing instability on conventional systems designed for dense architectures. We propose EaaS, a novel serving system to enable efficient, scalable, and robust MoE deployment. Our system disaggregates MoE modules into independent, stateless services. This design enables fine-grained resource scaling and provides inherent fault tolerance by decoupling compute units. The architecture is powe…

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable.
One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’ paychecks to collect unpaid bills.

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

After two decades in Congress,
Darrell Issa’s career is all about serving the ultra-wealthy like himself
– and serving Donald Trump. It’s time to send him packing and take our country back. 
On the City Council,
Marni von Wilpert
flipped San Diego’s reddest seat blue.
Now, she’s ready to do it again – in Congress.
https://www.

Marni von Wilpert for Congress
Marni von Wilpert is running for Congress to tackle the skyrocketing cost of living, protect reproductive freedom, defend LGBTQ rights, and make Washington work for working families — not just the wealthy few. With a proven record of service, results, and winning tough races, Marni is the battle-tested fighter we need to flip CA-48 and finally send Darrell Issa packing.

FLAME: A Serving System Optimized for Large-Scale Generative Recommendation with Efficiency
Xianwen Guo, Bin Huang, Xiaomeng Wu, Guanlin Wu, Fangjian Li, Shijia Wang, Qiang Xiao, Chuanjiang Luo, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22681

FLAME: A Serving System Optimized for Large-Scale Generative Recommendation with Efficiency
Generative recommendation (GR) models possess greater scaling power compared to traditional deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), yet they also impose a tremendous increase in computational burden. Measured in FLOPs, a typical GR model's workload sits in $10^9 \sim 10^{11}$ range, roughly four orders of magnitude higher than traditional DLRMs. Delivering accurate results in a few tens of milliseconds while processing billions of such requests per day puts extreme demands on the performan…

For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing drug dealers
In his second term, he’s made the fantasy a reality,
killing putative "drug dealers" in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters.
Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez,
who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic
💥 hundreds of tons of cocaine💥 into t…

Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
He's talked about executing drug dealers for a decade.

Trump: Execute drug dealers, free kingpins
Longtime Trump associate and right-wing operative Roger Stone personally lobbied for Hernandez’s release of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States
— free of charge, Stone claims.
Meanwhile, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has been working for the campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate f…

Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
He's talked about executing drug dealers for a decade.

RServe: Overlapping Encoding and Prefill for Efficient LMM Inference
Tianyu Guo, Tianming Xu, Xianjie Chen, Junru Chen, Nong Xiao, Xianwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24381

RServe: Overlapping Encoding and Prefill for Efficient LMM Inference
Large multimodal models (LMMs) typically employ an encoding module to transform multimodal data inputs into embeddings, which are then fed to language models for further processing. However, efficiently serving LMMs remains highly challenging due to the inherent complexity of their inference pipelines. Traditional serving engines co-locate the encoding module and the language model, leading to significant resource interference and tight data dependency. Recent studies have alleviated this issue…

Disaggregated Prefill and Decoding Inference System for Large Language Model Serving on Multi-Vendor GPUs
Xing Chen, Rong Shi, Lu Zhao, Lingbin Wang, Xiao Jin, Yueqiang Chen, Hongfeng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17542

Disaggregated Prefill and Decoding Inference System for Large Language Model Serving on Multi-Vendor GPUs
LLM-based applications have been widely used in various industries, but with the increasing of models size, an efficient large language model (LLM) inference system is an urgent problem to be solved for service providers. Since the inference system is divided into two stage with different characteristics: Prefill and Decode, the two stage will interfere with each other during the inference process. Toward this end, a P-D disaggregated inference framework is proposed by some researchers. Current…

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲?
My name is Matt Maasdam
and I’m running for Congress
to flip Michigan’s 7th congressional district.
I’m not a politician.
I’m a father, a husband, and a Navy SEAL.
I carried the nuclear football for President Obama
– now I’m running for Congress to continue serving my country. 
But this race won’t be easy. Experts are already calling MI-07 one of the most competitiv…

Matt Maasdam for Congress
Matt Maasdam is running for Congress to bring a different kind of leadership– one rooted in hard work, courage, and integrity. I believe in the Michigan Dream– where if you work hard, you can build a good life and get ahead.