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Frankly, Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, believe me. 🤣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-speaking-style.html?smid=nytcor…

Opinion | The Insidious Creep of Trump’s Speaking Style
The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well.

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

“Family values do not stop south of the Rio Grande,” he told the crowd. “Why do you think they are here? It’s because they love their family. You and I would do the same thing if we were in their position.”
Guess who said that? Answer below
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77-year-old poem explains protestors' ICE anger
Later set to music, Guthrie’s ode decries the dehumanization of immigrants that we’re seeing today

“Family values do not stop south of the Rio Grande,” he told the crowd. “Why do you think they are here? It’s because they love their family. You and I would do the same thing if we were in their position.”
Guess who said that? Answer below
https://ww…

77-year-old poem explains protestors' ICE anger
Later set to music, Guthrie’s ode decries the dehumanization of immigrants that we’re seeing today

Hi everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three lovely people from Gaza today over video chat on Signal and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family:
• Yasmeen (@…)
• Bilal (@…)
• Ahmed …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

BotTrans: A Multi-Source Graph Domain Adaptation Approach for Social Bot Detection
Boshen Shi, Yongqing Wang, Fangda Guo, Jiangli Shao, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13795

BotTrans: A Multi-Source Graph Domain Adaptation Approach for Social Bot Detection
Transferring extensive knowledge from relevant social networks has emerged as a promising solution to overcome label scarcity in detecting social bots and other anomalies with GNN-based models. However, effective transfer faces two critical challenges. Firstly, the network heterophily problem, which is caused by bots hiding malicious behaviors via indiscriminately interacting with human users, hinders the model's ability to learn sufficient and accurate bot-related knowledge from source domains…

I only know one song of theirs, but that’s on me.
There is a bypassable paywall on this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/16/this-countr…

Time-step Mixup for Efficient Spiking Knowledge Transfer from Appearance to Event Domain
Yuqi Xie, Shuhan Ye, Chong Wang, Jiazhen Xu, Le Shen, Yuanbin Qian, Jiangbo Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12959

Time-step Mixup for Efficient Spiking Knowledge Transfer from Appearance to Event Domain
The integration of event cameras and spiking neural networks holds great promise for energy-efficient visual processing. However, the limited availability of event data and the sparse nature of DVS outputs pose challenges for effective training. Although some prior work has attempted to transfer semantic knowledge from RGB datasets to DVS, they often overlook the significant distribution gap between the two modalities. In this paper, we propose Time-step Mixup knowledge transfer (TMKT), a novel…

Anthony Fantano on politics in music: “Advocating that art should avoid any topic generally speaking is just lame” https://musictech.com/news/music/anthony-fantano-music-politics/?utm_source…

Anthony Fantano on politics in music: “Advocating that art should avoid any topic generally speaking is just lame”
Should music stay out of politics? Should every protest anthem blow your mind? And is it really fair to expect a chart-topping banger to double as a political manifesto?