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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz3vv62pgo?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

Extrapolating Phase-Field Simulations in Space and Time with Purely Convolutional Architectures
Christophe Bonneville, Nathan Bieberdorf, Pieterjan Robbe, Mark Asta, Habib N. Najm, Laurent Capolungo, Cosmin Safta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20770

Extrapolating Phase-Field Simulations in Space and Time with Purely Convolutional Architectures
Phase-field models of liquid metal dealloying (LMD) can resolve rich microstructural dynamics but become intractable for large domains or long time horizons. We present a conditionally parameterized, fully convolutional U-Net surrogate that generalizes far beyond its training window in both space and time. The design integrates convolutional self-attention and physics-aware padding, while parameter conditioning enables variable time-step skipping and adaptation to diverse alloy systems. Althoug…

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United States’ immigrant detention system
in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time,
according to a draft solicitation reviewed by The Washington Post.

Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available, as happens now, …

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

Not only Lemmon but also #comet #SWAN has been imaged by Kimiya Yui from the #ISS: in https://x.com/Astro_Kimiya/status/1982242913389015085 it's peeking through the space station's solar arrays. (AFAIK this is a first, *two* comets getting imaged from the ISS at the same time.)

China’s coastal cities are sinking as seas rise at record speed #China

China’s coastal cities are sinking as seas rise at record speed
Sea levels are rising faster than at any time in 4,000 years, scientists report, with China’s major coastal cities at particular risk. The rapid increase is driven by warming oceans and melting ice, while human activities like groundwater pumping make it worse. In some areas, the land itself is sinking faster than the ocean is rising. Still, researchers see progress as cities like Shanghai adopt new technologies to stabilize the ground and prepare for the future.

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: All right. [walks toward the passage off Liberator flight deck, then stops]
BLAKE: Problem?
JENNA: Putting out a false distress signal. It's a trick used by space pirates.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/60 B7B4

Non-Commutative Gauge Theory at the Beach
Roland Bittleston, Simon Heuveline, Surya Raghavendran, David Skinner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20643 https://ar…

Non-Commutative Gauge Theory at the Beach
The KP equation is perhaps the most famous example of a three-dimensional integrable system. Here we show that a non-commutative five-dimensional Chern-Simons theory living on the projective spinor bundle of three-dimensional space-time compactifies to a Lagrangian formulation of the KP equation. Essential to the definition of the theory is a 2-form pulled back from minitwistor space. The dispersionless limit of the KP equation is similarly described by Poisson-Chern-Simons theory. We further s…

Where I Wuz 41 Years Ago #OTD Tonight:
#BigBlack at #DCSpace
Oct 24, 1984: Washington, DC
Probably my first time seeing the scrawny yet still freakishly imposing Albini backed by his drum machine "Roland" , wi…

Deadly floods in Mexico another sign of need for improved severe weather warnings #Mexico

Deadly floods in Mexico another sign of need for improved severe weather warnings
The most recent torrential rains in east-central Mexico, which have left at least 76 dead and dozens more missing, have raised questions again about the government's ability to alert people to severe weather in time.

Quantum Coherence in a Maximally Hot Hubbard Chain
C\u{a}t\u{a}lin Pa\c{s}cu Moca, Ovidiu I. Patu, Bal\'azs D\'ora, Gergely Zar\'and
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20498

Quantum Coherence in a Maximally Hot Hubbard Chain
We present a detailed study of the real-time dynamics and spectral properties of the one-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model at infinite temperature. Using tensor network simulations in Liouville space, we compute the single-particle Green's function and analyze its dynamics across a broad range of interaction strengths. To complement the time-domain approach, we develop a high-resolution Chebyshev expansion method within the density matrix formalism, enabling direct access to spectral function…

Mad Tribe is quickly becoming one of my favorite Psytrance artists, especially since it’s a collaboration between SPACE TRIBE and MAD MAXX (Olli Wisdom and Max Peterson), two of my all-time favorite psytrance acts.
https://madtribe.bandcamp.com

Cool, von @… gibt es ebenfalls eine Jahresrückschau :) Sogar mit Alt-Text-Generator für die SharePics. Gefällt mir.
In den Top 10 habe ich noch #LinkinPark und #Moderat

I turned the heat on for the first time, this morning. That probably means that I need to take the fan out of the office and replace it with the space heater.

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115574275924393128
Describe a time that you did something kind for someone—even if it was small—without anticipating anything in return.
I do kind things all the time! One time while staring at a …

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

I got those new disks loaded into the TrueNAS server and have been moving things around to make more space on the primary pool.
I've got my home computers running backups to the NAS and most of the Macs also have Time Machine drives attached...
At this point I'm still missing off-site backups but I can look into that by placing a small NAS at the office.
#TrueNAS

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SERVALAN: I hope so, Egrorian. I've waited a long time for this.
EGRORIAN: His death is a mathematical certainty. The product of a simple equation.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/202 B7B6

Tidal features around simulated groups and cluster galaxies: Enhancement and suppression of merger events through environment in LSST-like mock observations
Aman Khalid, Sarah Brough, Garreth Martin, Lucas C. Kimmig, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Claudia del P. Lagos, Lucas M. Valenzuela, Ruby J. Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20723

Tidal features around simulated groups and cluster galaxies: Enhancement and suppression of merger events through environment in LSST-like mock observations
Generally, merger likelihood increases in denser environments; however, the large relative velocities at the centres of dense clusters are expected to reduce the likelihood of mergers for satellite galaxies. Tidal features probe the recent merger histories of galaxies. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce an unprecedented sample of tidal features around millions of galaxies. We use LSST-like mock observations of galaxies at $z\sim0$ from the EAGLE,…

ArtUV: Artist-style UV Unwrapping
Yuguang Chen, Xinhai Liu, Yang Li, Victor Cheung, Zhuo Chen, Dongyu Zhang, Chunchao Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20710 https://

ArtUV: Artist-style UV Unwrapping
UV unwrapping is an essential task in computer graphics, enabling various visual editing operations in rendering pipelines. However, existing UV unwrapping methods struggle with time-consuming, fragmentation, lack of semanticity, and irregular UV islands, limiting their practical use. An artist-style UV map must not only satisfy fundamental criteria, such as overlap-free mapping and minimal distortion, but also uphold higher-level standards, including clean boundaries, efficient space utilizati…

Hey kids! Are you bored? Here's a tip: annoy your parents! It's the hottest new trend. Your parents weren't actually doing anything important. Get all up in their personal space, ask endless questions, babble if you can't think of anything to say, fight with your sibling(s), accidentally knock over or break whatever thing your parents were trying to fix or make! It's fun! And remember, your parents are, like, REALLY old; so you need to take advantage of the time you have …

11/16/85 long beach: rare post-’74 2nd set TENNESSEE JED, last time as set opener, more juice than usual; same for CUMBERLAND BLUES, a lesh slot. 57-minute CRAZY FINGERS > DRUMZ > SPACE > COMES A TIME > GIMME SOME LOVIN’ > TRUCKIN’ > BLACK PETER > GOOD LOVIN’. shaky CRAZY FINGERS lyrics, but deep wounded COMES A TIME holds achingly steady. solid Beamin’ melts to thoughtful garcia/weir SPACE. GIMME SOME LOVIN’ vocal jamminess. weir takes mic off stand & wanders for GO…

Causal perturbation theory and scattering amplitudes
H. A. C. Grande, J. C. A Barata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20573

Causal perturbation theory and scattering amplitudes
Motivated by the limited interaction between the mathematical physics community and theoretical physicists - particularly in high-energy theory - we present a computation that is typically the first example in QFT courses but, to our knowledge, does not appear in the literature: the scattering amplitudes of the $λϕ^4$ model in four-dimensional space-time, derived within the framework of causal perturbation theory. Our aim is to introduce this mathematically rigorous formalism in the most acce…

Towards Inference-time Scaling for Continuous Space Reasoning
Minghan Wang, Thuy-Trang Vu, Ehsan Shareghi, Gholamreza Haffari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12167 https://

Towards Inference-time Scaling for Continuous Space Reasoning
Inference-time scaling through multiple sample generation in combination with Process- or Outcome-Reward Model (PRM or ORM) re-ranking has proven effective for text-based reasoning in large language models. This paper investigates whether such established techniques can be successfully adapted to reasoning in the continuous space, using COCONUT (Hao et al. 2024) continuous space reasoning LM as the backbone. We demonstrate the feasibility of generating diverse reasoning paths through dropout-ba…

Interstellar’s second life: how Christopher Nolan’s most divisive film became his most loved https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/21/interstellar-christopher-nolan-film-memes-divisive-most-loved?CMP=S…

Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (Pia Singh/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/nvidia-backed-starcloud-tr…

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up
The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in outer space.

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Difference-Guided Reasoning: A Temporal-Spatial Framework for Large Language Models
Hong Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20713 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.207…

Difference-Guided Reasoning: A Temporal-Spatial Framework for Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are important tools for reasoning and problem-solving, while they often operate passively, answering questions without actively discovering new ones. This limitation reduces their ability to simulate human-like thinking, where noticing differences is a key trigger for reasoning. Thus, in this paper we propose a difference-guided reasoning framework, which enables LLMs to identify and act upon changes across time and space. The model formalizes differences through fe…

Data-driven Neural Networks for Windkessel Parameter Calibration
Benedikt Hoock, Tobias K\"oppl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21206 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Data-driven Neural Networks for Windkessel Parameter Calibration
In this work, we propose a novel method for calibrating Windkessel (WK) parameters in a dimensionally reduced 1D-0D coupled blood flow model. To this end, we design a data-driven neural network (NN)trained on simulated blood pressures in the left brachial artery. Once trained, the NN emulates the pressure pulse waves across the entire simulated domain, i.e., over time, space and varying WK parameters, with negligible error and computational effort. To calibrate the WK parameters on a measured p…

The Bills might be in trouble, plus drama in Laker-land https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6824633/2025/11/21/bills-texans-josh-allen-the-pulse/

This framing doesn’t even touch the crucial forces of ego and identity formation and craving for belonging that are the bedrock of fascist movements like MAGA. Others are thinking productively about that, and it’s at least as important here!
That belief-as-identity phenomenon is also time-based. Somebody posted about those Young Republicans and their Telegram messages grooming and being groomed for fascism, and that’s right: it’s not just the existence of the fascist space; it’s the sustained process of drawing people in over time.
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135270/online-seminar-nature-and-boundaries-water-spac…

Decent folks may want to block this libertarian, pro-genocide instance.
(libertarian.communitynetwork.space)
https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/objects/0b38de6a-3cbe-4113-8fbb-25b17b6e5dfe

Korsier (@korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space)
@aral Well, she didn't learn her lesson the first time.

In the beginning was the Tao. The Tao gave birth to Space and Time.
Therefore, Space and Time are the Yin and Yang of programming.
Programmers that do not comprehend the Tao are always running out of
time and space for their programs. Programmers that comprehend the Tao always
have enough time and space to accomplish their goals.
How could it be otherwise?
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

macOS is like "yeah we've got 100GB of Time Machine backups cached, but don't worry, if you need the space, we'll just delete them!"
Well, that was a lie.

A time-space B-spline integrator for the Burgers' equation
Idris Dag, Serkan U\u{g}urluo\u{g}lu, Nihat Adar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09408 https://ar…

A time-space B-spline integrator for the Burgers' equation
The purpose of this paper is to propose a new algorithm for obtaining approximate solutions to the Burgers' equation (BE). Integration in time by a quadratic B-spline collocation method is shown. To the best of our knowledge, B-splines have not previously been used to integrate partial differential equations in both time and space. First, the BE is integrated using quadratic B-spline functions in time, and then the time-integrated BE is further solved in space via the cubic B-spline collocation…

And the next space launch webcast is on: #NewShepard 37 - see https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-37-mission and https://abcnews.go.com/US/1st-time-person-wheelchair-fly-space/story?id=128483608 and https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/science/blue-origin-launch-benthaus-koenigsmann for more.

from my link log —
Resizable arrays in optimal time and space.
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~imunro/cs840/ResizableArrays.pdf
saved 2025-12-18 ht…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/5]:
- Feed Two Birds with One Scone: Exploiting Wild Data for Both Out-of-Distribution Generalization a...
Haoyue Bai, Gregory Canal, Xuefeng Du, Jeongyeol Kwon, Robert Nowak, Yixuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09158
- Sparse, Efficient and Explainable Data Attribution with DualXDA
Galip \"Umit Yolcu, Moritz Weckbecker, Thomas Wiegand, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12118 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/111962593972369958
- HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs
Sun, Que, {\AA}rrestad, Loncar, Ngadiuba, Luk, Spiropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112370274737558603
- On the Identification of Temporally Causal Representation with Instantaneous Dependence
Li, Shen, Zheng, Cai, Song, Gong, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15325 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112511890051553111
- Basis Selection: Low-Rank Decomposition of Pretrained Large Language Models for Target Applications
Yang Li, Daniel Agyei Asante, Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112517547424098076
- Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric
Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03735 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113089789682783135
- Low-Rank Filtering and Smoothing for Sequential Deep Learning
Joanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Nathanael Bosch, Agustinus Kristiadi, Philipp Hennig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113283021321510736
- Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification
Xiaoyu Tao, Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Yucong Luo, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18686 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113367101100828901
- Fairness via Independence: A (Conditional) Distance Covariance Framework
Ruifan Huang, Haixia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113587817648503815
- Data for Mathematical Copilots: Better Ways of Presenting Proofs for Machine Learning
Simon Frieder, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15184 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113683924322164777
- Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
Ishank Juneja, Carlee Joe-Wong, Osman Ya\u{g}an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392622871057
- Towards Human-Guided, Data-Centric LLM Co-Pilots
Evgeny Saveliev, Jiashuo Liu, Nabeel Seedat, Anders Boyd, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10321 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392688054204
- Regularized Langevin Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization
Shengyu Feng, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00277
- Generating Samples to Probe Trained Models
Eren Mehmet K{\i}ral, Nur\c{s}en Ayd{\i}n, \c{S}. \.Ilker Birbil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113984059089245671
- On Agnostic PAC Learning in the Small Error Regime
Julian Asilis, Mikael M{\o}ller H{\o}gsgaard, Grigoris Velegkas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09496 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114000974082372598
- Preconditioned Inexact Stochastic ADMM for Deep Model
Shenglong Zhou, Ouya Wang, Ziyan Luo, Yongxu Zhu, Geoffrey Ye Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10784 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023667639951005
- On the Effect of Sampling Diversity in Scaling LLM Inference
Wang, Liu, Chen, Light, Liu, Chen, Zhang, Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11027 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023688225233656
- How to use score-based diffusion in earth system science: A satellite nowcasting example
Randy J. Chase, Katherine Haynes, Lander Ver Hoef, Imme Ebert-Uphoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114516300594057680
- PEAR: Equal Area Weather Forecasting on the Sphere
Hampus Linander, Christoffer Petersson, Daniel Persson, Jan E. Gerken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114572963019603744
- Train Sparse Autoencoders Efficiently by Utilizing Features Correlation
Vadim Kurochkin, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev, Daniil Gavrilov, Nikita Balagansky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22255 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114589956040892075
- A Certified Unlearning Approach without Access to Source Data
Umit Yigit Basaran, Sk Miraj Ahmed, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Basak Guler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114658421178857085
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There's some rich scientific literature on volunteering and how volunteer motivations change and shift from initial engagement to sustained contributing, including some work we've done in that space around motivations for engaging with self-research communities.
Maybe it's time for a another blog post to look at that in more detail 😅

For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: A few hours ago. We've plenty of time to get to the combat grounds.
TARRANT: Zen. [Looks at Avon] Yes?
AVON: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/71 B7B5

Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
Spencer W. Jolly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11161 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
The electric field distributions and space-time singularity curves are computed for ultrashort pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams having spatial chirp. Due to the breaking of cylindrical symmetry by the spatial chirp, the singularities trace complicated curves in space-time, which also vary for different combinations of radial and vortical orders. Analytical solutions are mostly presented along with a recipe for numerically calculating higher orders. The behavior of the singularities upon pro…

On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation
Yuan Liao, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Jorge Gil, Silvia De Sojo Caso, Laura Alessandretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10307

On the Relationship between Space-Time Accessibility and Leisure Activity Participation
Understanding how accessibility shapes participation in leisure activities is central to promoting inclusive and vibrant urban life. Conventional accessibility measures often focus on potential access from fixed home locations, overlooking the constraints and opportunities embedded in daily routines. In this study, we introduce a space-time accessibility (SPA) metric rooted in the capability approach, capturing feasible leisure opportunities between home and work given a certain time budget, in…

The Space-Time Connectivity Theorem for Normal Currents
Paolo Bonicatto, Filip Rindler, Harry Turnbull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08360 https://arxiv.org/p…

The Space-Time Connectivity Theorem for Normal Currents
This work establishes a Space-Time Connectivity Theorem for normal currents. In analogy to classical results by Federer and Fleming as well as a recent theorem for integral currents by the second author, this result allows one to witness the weak* convergence of a uniformly bounded sequence of boundaryless normal currents with a space-time normal current that connects the elements of the sequence with their limit. The space-time setting is distinguished from the classical case in that this conn…

Feynman Formula for Discrete-time Quantum Walks
Jean-Pierre Fouque, Tomoyuki Ichiba, Ka Lok Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Feynman Formula for Discrete-time Quantum Walks
We explicitly connect (discrete-time) quantum walks on Z with a four-state Markov additive process via a Feynman-type formula (2.5). Using this representation, we derive a relation between the spectral decomposition of the Markov additive process and the limiting density of the homogeneous quantum walk. In addition, we consider a space-time rescaling of quantum walks, which leads to a system of quantum transport PDEs in continuous time and space with a phase interaction term. Our probabilistic …

Heineman shared the message last night that her health was rapidly declining.
"It's time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless," Heineman wrote.
"So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my keyboard, Pixelbreaker! So I can make a worthy entrance for reuniting with my one true love, Jennell Jaquays."
Game developers have begun sharing their own condolences and remembrances in the wake of Heineman's death

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

Is it just me? Perhaps because I often have only one or two tabs open - I'm a compulsive tab closer. But the new UI in macOS Safari for handling tabs wastes space, is hard to use, and confuses me constantly about where the URL box is and such. I am unsure why it passed muster at product review time.
Perhaps it works well for others. But even if you always have more than one tab open, it still wastes vertical space.

MAQCY: Modular Atom-Array Quantum Computing with Space-Time Hybrid Multiplexing
Andrew Byun, Chanseul Lee, Eunsik Yoon, Minhyuk KimMinhyuk Kim, Tai Hyun Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02940

MAQCY: Modular Atom-Array Quantum Computing with Space-Time Hybrid Multiplexing
We present a modular atom-array quantum computing architecture with space-time hybrid multiplexing (MAQCY), a dynamic optical tweezer-based protocol for fully connected and scalable universal quantum computation. By extending the concept of globally controlled static dual-species Rydberg atom wires [1], we develop an entirely new approach using Q-Pairs, which consist of globally controlled and temporally multiplexed dual-species Rydberg blockaded atom and superatom pairs. Space-time hybrid mult…

Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with 3D Fourier Fields
Alexander Becker, Julius Erbach, Dominik Narnhofer, Konrad Schindler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26325 https:/…

Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution with 3D Fourier Fields
We introduce a novel formulation for continuous space-time video super-resolution. Instead of decoupling the representation of a video sequence into separate spatial and temporal components and relying on brittle, explicit frame warping for motion compensation, we encode video as a continuous, spatio-temporally coherent 3D Video Fourier Field (VFF). That representation offers three key advantages: (1) it enables cheap, flexible sampling at arbitrary locations in space and time; (2) it is able t…

if you see me posting with random double spaces between words its not bc I'm ancient and don't know how to type it's bc SwiftKey just REALLY wants to double space all the goddamn time for some reason

Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions Using Offline Belief State Planning
Grace Ra Kim, Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Evan Astle, Zachary Booth, Edward Balaban, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08812

Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions Using Offline Belief State Planning
Deep space missions face extreme communication delays and environmental uncertainty that prevent real-time ground operations. To support autonomous science operations in communication-constrained environments, we present a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) framework that adaptively sequences spacecraft science instruments. We integrate a Bayesian network into the POMDP observation space to manage the high-dimensional and uncertain measurements typical of astrobiology missions…

I officially re-repost this toot by Gato Negro @…!!
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Loop functions of sunset graphs in 2 1 space-time dimensions
N. Kaiser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08704

Loop functions of sunset graphs in 2+1 space-time dimensions
In these notes the relativistic $n$-body phase-phase is calculated iteratively in $2+1$ space-time dimensions for all $n$. The obtained result shows a simple power-law behavior $α_n (μ-M)^{n-2}/μ$ with a dependence only on the total mass $M=m_1+\dots + m_n$. As a consequence of this feature, the $(n-1)$-loop integrals $J_n(-q^2)$ associated to sunset graphs with $n$ internal lines can be expressed through of elementary (arctangent and logarithmic) functions, modulo polynomial terms in $q^2$ …

Contraction and entropy production in continuous-time Sinkhorn dynamics
Anand Srinivasan, Jean-Jacques Slotine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12639 https://arx…

Contraction and entropy production in continuous-time Sinkhorn dynamics
Recently, the vanishing-step-size limit of the Sinkhorn algorithm at finite regularization parameter $\varepsilon$ was shown to be a mirror descent in the space of probability measures. We give $L^2$ contraction criteria in two time-dependent metrics induced by the mirror Hessian, which reduce to the coercivity of certain conditional expectation operators. We then give an exact identity for the entropy production rate of the Sinkhorn flow, which was previously known only to be nonpositive. Exam…

Time-causal and time-recursive wavelets
Tony Lindeberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05834 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05834

Time-causal and time-recursive wavelets
When to apply wavelet analysis to real-time temporal signals, where the future cannot be accessed, it is essential to base all the steps in the signal processing pipeline on computational mechanisms that are truly time-causal. This paper describes how a time-causal wavelet analysis can be performed based on concepts developed in the area of temporal scale-space theory, originating from a complete classification of temporal smoothing kernels that guarantee non-creation of new structures from f…

Generalized Bishop frames of regular time-like curves in 4-dimensional Lorentz space $\mathbb{L}^{4}$
Subaru Nomoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09345 https://

Generalized Bishop frames of regular time-like curves in 4-dimensional Lorentz space $\mathbb{L}^{4}$
We introduced generalized Bishop frames on curves in 4-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^{4}$, which are orthonormal frames such that the derivatives of the vectors of the frames along the curve can be expressed, via a certain matrix, as a linear combination of the vectors of the frame. In relation to that, we study generalized Bishop frames of regular time-like curves. In a previous work, we showed that there is a hierarchy among different types of generalized Bishop frames for regular…

Freedom for Animals has delved into the dark world of the bird of prey industry for a second time, to carry out a major new investigation as part of our Tether and Torment campaign.
This comes seven years after our landmark 2018 report first brought national attention to the hidden suffering behind the industry, and exposed the continuing welfare failures in UK bird of prey centres.

Tether and Torment 2
Undercover investigation into Bird of Prey Zoos in the UK. Read our new report, published 2025.

Time to harness the sun! ☀️🛰️
We are LIVE for today's 3D printing stream, and we're adding more solar arrays to the Tiangong space station model. Powering the space race, one layer at a time (and still running smooth on Linux, naturally 🐧).
Tune in to watch the model grow: 👇 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Robust Closed-Form Control for MIMO Nonlinear Systems under Conflicting Time-Varying Hard and Soft Constraints
Farhad Mehdifar, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Dimos V. Dimarogonas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11393

Robust Closed-Form Control for MIMO Nonlinear Systems under Conflicting Time-Varying Hard and Soft Constraints
This paper introduces a novel robust closed-form control law to handle time-varying hard and soft constraints in uncertain high-relative-degree nonlinear MIMO systems. These constraints represent spatiotemporal specifications in mechanical systems' operational space, with hard constraints ensuring safety-critical requirements and soft constraints encoding performance or task objectives. Initially, all constraints are consolidated into two separate scalar time-varying hard and soft constraint fu…

The Case for Space: Estimating Precise Time Delays from Ground- and Space-Based Observations of Lensed Supernovae with Glimpse
Erin E. Hayes, Suhail Dhawan, Stephen Thorp, Justin D. R. Pierel, Nikki Arendse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25350

The Case for Space: Estimating Precise Time Delays from Ground- and Space-Based Observations of Lensed Supernovae with Glimpse
The delay in arrival time of the multiple images of gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) can be related to the present-day expansion rate of the universe, $H_{0}$. Despite their rarity, Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin-LSST) is expected to discover tens of galaxy-scale glSNe per year, many of which will not be resolved due to their compact nature. Follow-up from ground- and space-based telescopes will be necessary to estimate time delays to sufficient precision fo…

Extreme events and impact statistics for unipotent actions on the space of lattices
Jens Marklof, Andreas Str\"ombergsson, Shucheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11371 http…

Extreme events and impact statistics for unipotent actions on the space of lattices
This paper extends a recent extreme value law for horocycle flows on the space of two-dimensional lattices, due to Kirsebom and Mallahi-Karai, to the simplest examples of rank-$k$ unipotent actions on the space of $n$-dimensional lattices. We analyse the problem in terms of the hitting time and impact statistics for the unipotent action with respect to a shrinking surface of section, following the strategy of Pollicott and the first named author in the case of hyperbolic surfaces. If $k=n-1$, t…

The AI coding trap
If you ever watch someone “coding”, you might see them spending far more time staring into space than typing on their keyboard. No, they (probably) aren’t slacking off. Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, as with solving a tricky crossword, most of the work is done in your head. […]
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The AI coding trap | Chris Loy
If you ever watch someone “coding”, you might see them spending far more time staring into space than typing on their keyboard.

Space impacts temporal processing via a visual-dependent spatially organized neural architecture https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1444-24.2025 "spatial features affected the temporal processing of sighted but not blind people, regardless of age."

Space impacts temporal processing via a visual-dependent spatially organized neural architecture
Establishing the temporal relationship between stimuli challenges the brain, requiring some tolerance for asynchronies to form coherent representations. Based on the theory of implicit causal inference, we hypothesized temporal processing of events is influenced by spatial features as stimuli coming from the same spatial location are most likely to derive from a common source and, consequently, implicitly merged in time. As visual experience guides the formation of neural sensory maps, we expec…

New charged dynamical particles in spatially flat FLRW space-times
Ion I. Cotaescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03444 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03444…

New charged dynamical particles in spatially flat FLRW space-times
New time-dependent metric tensors with spherical symmetry satisfying the Einstein-Maxwell equations in space-times with FLRW asymptotic behaviour are derived here for the first time. These geometries describe dynamical charged non-rotating black holes hosted by the perfect fluid of the asymptotic FLRW space-times. Their gravitational sources are the stress-energy tensors formed by a contribution of the perfect fluid and an electromagnetic one due to the Coulomb field produced by the time-depend…

A second #planetesimal collision in the #Fomalhaut system: #Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time / Zerstörerische Kollisionen in einem jungen Planetensystem: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_sees_asteroids_colliding_around_nearby_star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-asteroids-colliding-at-nearby-star-for-first-time/ / https://www.mpg.de/24356362/fomalhaut-staubwolken-durch-kollisionen

Space-time reversible graph rewriting
Pablo Arrighi, Marin Costes, Luidnel Maignan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03296 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03296…

Space-time reversible graph rewriting
In the mathematical tradition, reversibility requires that the evolution of a dynamical system be a bijective function. In the context of graph rewriting, however, the evolution is not even a function, because it is not even deterministic -- as the rewrite rules get applied at non-deterministically chosen locations. Physics, by contrast, suggests a more flexible understanding of reversibility in space-time, whereby any two closeby snapshots (aka `space-like cuts'), must mutually determine each …

A04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Zen, three sixty degree survey. Put etheric detector beams on maximum. Report any space vehicles within range. Vila, put visual survey on the screen.
ZEN: Negative on all systems. There are no space vehicles within detector range.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/10…

MCMC for State Space models
Paul Fearnhead, Chris Sherlock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04932 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04932…

MCMC for State Space models
A state-space model is a time-series model that has an unobserved latent process from which we take noisy measurements over time. The observations are conditionally independent given the latent process and the latent process itself is Markovian. These properties lead to simplifications for the conditional distribution of the latent process given the parameters and the observations. This chapter looks at how we can leverage the properties of state-space models to construct efficient MCMC sampler…

Shelf space for paper magazines in London WHSmith outlets probably down around another 30% since the last time I remarked on it.

On Structured State-Space Duality
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Xiwen Zhang, Weimin Wu, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04944

On Structured State-Space Duality
Structured State-Space Duality (SSD) [Dao & Gu, ICML 2024] is an equivalence between a simple Structured State-Space Model (SSM) and a masked attention mechanism. In particular, a state-space model with a scalar-times-identity state matrix is equivalent to a masked self-attention with a $1$-semiseparable causal mask. Consequently, the same sequence transformation (model) has two algorithmic realizations: as a linear-time $O(T)$ recurrence or as a quadratic-time $O(T^2)$ attention. In this note,…

Parareal in time and spectral in space fast L1 quasilinear subdiffusion solver
Josefa Caballero, {\L}ukasz P{\l}ociniczak, Kishin Sadarangani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11023 ht…

Parareal in time and spectral in space fast L1 quasilinear subdiffusion solver
We consider the initial-boundary value problem for a quasilinear time-fractional diffusion equation, and develop a fully discrete solver combining the parareal algorithm in time with a L1 finite-difference approximation of the Caputo derivative and a spectral Galerkin discretization in space. Our main contribution is the first rigorous convergence proof for the parareal-L1 scheme in this nonlinear subdiffusive setting. By constructing suitable energy norms and exploiting the orthogonality of th…

Note to self: Do not run more than one space heater in the basement at the same time.
Congrats to self: The UPS for the home server was worth it.

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using Medal.tv game clips, raised a $133.7M seed led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/gene

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunch
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using that data to build AI agents that understand how they move through space and time, a concept called spatial-temporal reasoning.

11/17/85 long beach: good age for CASSIDY & LOOKS LIKE RAIN, thunder rolling bigger & bigger on both. graceful allmans-y ribbons at CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER > I KNOW YOU RIDER peak. 19-minute HE’S GONE > SPOONFUL > GOOD TIME BLUES. HE’S GONE jam starting to sweetly molt before weir takes over; not-bad by SPOONFUL standards. garcia splits before mydland’s tune. 35-minute DRUMZ > SPACE > THE WHEEL > THROWING STONES > NOT FADE AWAY. fun underwater circus-y garcialogue SP…

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns #Alps

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns
Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely. Looking at the number of glaciers disappearing, the Alps could reach their peak loss rate as early as 2033 to 2041. Depending on how sharply the planet warms, this period may mark a time when more glaciers vanish than ever before. Worldwide, the peak glacier loss rate will occur about ten years later and could rise from 2,000 to 4,000 glaciers lost each year.

There's so much more to this too. Like, I have so much more time and space to consider these things. I mend clothes, when I can. I fix electronics. Part of that is having the privilege (of time) to be able to do that. How many things are broken, wasted, whatever because of all this pressure on people?
It makes the waste of the ultra rich even more stark. They have the time, the privilege, to not waste. They have the capacity to reduce their impact more than any of us, and yet they choose to use more than all of us.

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s)
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Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP <…

LatentEvolve: Self-Evolving Test-Time Scaling in Latent Space
Guibin Zhang, Fanci Meng, Guancheng Wan, Zherui Li, Kun Wang, Zhenfei Yin, Lei Bai, Shuicheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24771

LatentEvolve: Self-Evolving Test-Time Scaling in Latent Space
Test-time Scaling (TTS) has been demonstrated to significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) during the inference phase without altering model parameters. However, existing TTS methods are largely independent, implying that LLMs have not yet evolved to progressively learn how to scale more effectively. With the objective of evolving LLMs to learn ``how to scale test-time computation,'' we propose LatentEvolve, a self-evolving latent TTS framework inspired by…

Argus: JAX state-space filtering for gravitational wave detection with a pulsar timing array
Tom Kimpson, Nicholas J. O'Neill, Patrick M. Meyers, Andrew Melatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11077

Argus: JAX state-space filtering for gravitational wave detection with a pulsar timing array
Argus is a high-performance Python package for detecting and characterising nanohertz gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data. The package provides a complete Bayesian inference framework based on state-space models, using Kalman filtering for efficient likelihood evaluation. Argus leverages JAX for just-in-time compilation, GPU acceleration, and automatic differentiation, facilitating rapid Bayesian inference with gradient-based samplers. The state-space approach provides a computation…

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on space-time noncommutativity
Teodora Maria Matei, Cristian Croitoru, Tiberiu Harko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10685 https://

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on space-time noncommutativity
We consider the implications of the modified dispersion relations, due to the noncommutativity of the spacetime, for a photon gas filling the early Universe in the framework of the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) processes, during the period of light elements formation. We consider three types of deformations present in the dispersion relations for the radiation gas, from which we obtain the low temperature corrections to the energy density and pressure. The cosmological implications of the modi…

Time Averaged Statistics of the 3D Stochastic Ladyzenskaya-Smagorinsky Equations
Wai-Tong Louis Fan, Ali Pakzad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12004 https://ar…

Time Averaged Statistics of the 3D Stochastic Ladyzenskaya-Smagorinsky Equations
Due to the chaotic nature of turbulence, statistical quantities are often more informative than pointwise characterizations. In this work, we consider the stochastic Ladyzhenskaya-Smagorinsky equation driven by space-time Gaussian noise on a three-dimensional periodic domain. We derive a rigorous upper bound on the first moment of the energy dissipation rate and show that it remains finite in the vanishing viscosity limit, consistent with Kolmogorov's phenomenological theory. This estimate also…

Time-diffracting 2D wave vortices
Boris A. Khanikati, Konstantin Y. Bliokh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10147

Time-diffracting 2D wave vortices
Wave vortices constitute a large family of wave entities, closely related to phase singularities and orbital angular momentum (OAM). So far, two main classes of localized wave vortices have been explored: (i) transversely-localized monochromatic vortex beams that carry well-defined longitudinal OAM and propagate/diffract in space, and (ii) 2D-localized spatiotemporal vortex pulses that carry the more elusive transverse (or tilted) OAM and propagate/diffract in both space and time. Here we intro…

“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-people-die-trump-cuts-hit-food-inspections/

“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections
American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.

Regularized Random Fourier Features and Finite Element Reconstruction for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space
Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17884
arXiv:2512.17884v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically justified approximations that require less training than standard methods. However, they can become computationally prohibitive for large training sets and can be sensitive to noise. We propose a regularized random Fourier feature (RRFF) approach, coupled with a finite element reconstruction map (RRFF-FEM), for learning operators from noisy data. The method uses random features drawn from multivariate Student's $t$ distributions, together with frequency-weighted Tikhonov regularization that suppresses high-frequency noise. We establish high-probability bounds on the extreme singular values of the associated random feature matrix and show that when the number of features $N$ scales like $m \log m$ with the number of training samples $m$, the system is well-conditioned, which yields estimation and generalization guarantees. Detailed numerical experiments on benchmark PDE problems, including advection, Burgers', Darcy flow, Helmholtz, Navier-Stokes, and structural mechanics, demonstrate that RRFF and RRFF-FEM are robust to noise and achieve improved performance with reduced training time compared to the unregularized random feature model, while maintaining competitive accuracy relative to kernel and neural operator tests.
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The world's carbon emissions continue to rise—but 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon #environment

The world's carbon emissions continue to rise—but 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon
Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to rise in 2025 to a new all-time high, with all sources—coal, gas, and oil—contributing to the increase.

Ionospheric gradient estimation using ground-based GEO observations for monitoring multi-scale ionospheric dynamics: #Ionosphere in motion - a new way to track space weather in real time: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110143

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.)

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VILA: You can say goodbye to one bolt hole.
BLAKE: How far is it?
AVON: One hundred and fifty hours. [To Zen] Confirm.
ZEN: Flight time is six hundred forty three hours.
AVON: Direct flight.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/120 B7B4…

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/global-treaty-to-end-subsidies-for-destructive-fishing-takes-effect/

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect
A landmark global treaty to curb billions of dollars in government subsidies for overfishing took effect on Sept. 15, Mongabay contributor Elizabeth Fitt reported. The agreement marks the first time the World Trade Organization (WTO) has approved an environmental sustainability agreement in its 30-year history. The deal came into effect after Brazil, Kenya, Tonga and […]

NEO: No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering
Alexander Murphy, Michal Danilowski, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Abhirup Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05635 h…

NEO: No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering
Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) methods are often computationally expensive, require a large amount of data for effective adaptation, or are brittle to hyperparameters. Based on a theoretical foundation of the geometry of the latent space, we are able to significantly improve the alignment between source and distribution-shifted samples by re-centering target data embeddings at the origin. This insight motivates NEO -- a hyperparameter-free fully TTA method, that adds no significant compute compared…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: How long has it been registering?
JENNA: Couple of minutes. Signal's getting stronger.
BLAKE: Zen, visual detector scan and computer analysis on grid one one five, please.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/48 B7B2

Light pollution: The silent threat to the planet that's easily solved #environment

Light pollution: The silent threat to the planet that's easily solved
New research has revealed for the first time the full extent of how "Artificial Light At Night" (ALAN) is increasing carbon released by plants and animals across continents—without any increase in the carbon they absorb. The result is reduced carbon storage in ecosystems—which has major implications for climate models and global carbon budgets.

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code” #bee

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code”
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a sweet reward, demonstrating an unexpected sense of timing. This ability may stem from a fundamental neural process, suggesting that even tiny brains have complex time-tracking mechanisms relevant to evolution and AI.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Zen, abort course for asteroid PK One One Eight and resume course for planet Del Ten. Confirm with arrival time.
ZEN: Arrival at planet Del Ten at zero four five plus one.
[Liberator turns in space]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/164

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records #environment

Huge Impacts of UK Pig and Bird Farming Unveiled in Wildlife Trusts Report https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/09/11/huge-impacts-of-uk-pig-and-bird-farming-unveiled-in-wildlife-trusts-report/?utm_source=Mastod…

Huge Impacts of UK Pig and Bird Farming Unveiled in Wildlife Trusts Report
On the 29th of August 2025, a new independent report commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts unveiled for the first time the vast environmental damage caused by the UK pig and bird farming sector…

EU in race against time to agree climate emissions target #EU

EU in race against time to agree climate emissions target
European diplomats are scrambling to agree on a 10-year target to cut EU carbon emissions this week, with time running out ahead of the United Nations COP30 climate summit.

5 Surprising Phrases That Are Rooted in Animal Exploitation https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/12/5-surprising-phrases-that-are-rooted-in-animal-exploitation/?utm_source=Mastodon

5 Surprising Phrases That Are Rooted in Animal Exploitation
Some of our most commonly used expressions come from hunting, farming, and other forms of animal exploitation. Here are five phrases that might make you think twice the next time you drop them into…