@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-06 08:23:50
Advancing Science- and Evidence-based AI Policy
Rishi Bommasani, Sanjeev Arora, Jennifer Chayes, Yejin Choi, Mariano-Florentino Cu\'ellar, Li Fei-Fei, Daniel E. Ho, Dan Jurafsky, Sanmi Koyejo, Hima Lakkaraju, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Emma Pierson, Joelle Pineau, Scott Singer, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ion Stoica, Percy Liang, Dawn Song
@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-05 10:54:10
Adaptive Phase-Shifted Pilot Design for Uplink Multiple Access in ISAC Systems
Ahmet Sacid S\"umer, Ebubekir Memi\c{s}o\u{g}lu, H\"useyin Arslan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02334
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-08-05 14:52:03
> "At one point during the press conference, Mr Finch acknowledged the risks attached to talking about a live legal case, saying: “I was told if I released this, I’d be in contempt of court.”
Contempt of court is being cynically used for self-promotion by right-wing activists.
Take action against them, and they become martyrs against "cover-ups". If a case collapses as a result of their actions, it's just proof of a corrupt system protecting criminals.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-29 17:31:37
Republican control of state legislatures is systematically associated with the rich being (and becoming) richer.
In short, American plutocracy seems to be a quintessentially Republican affair.
And that’s not all.
As we journey into the depths of US state politics, the plot will thicken.
We’ll find striking partisan differences in the language used in state bills.
We’ll see the many ways that Republicans help the rich and hurt workers.
We’ll see the impact pa…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-08-01 20:38:40
Trump didn't like the fact that the US jobs report showed the weakest pace of hiring for any three-month period since the pandemic recession in 2020.
So he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/01/bus
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-03 13:50:23
Nuclear fusion plasma fuelling with ice pellets using a neuromorphic controller
L. L. T. C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W. P. M. H. Heemels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02147
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-29 19:31:19
"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-20 13:56:12
Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-27 05:05:02
NAACP sues Texas over congressional redistricting,
saying it strips Black voters of political power
The organization’s suit also says that the redrawn Texas maps violate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
https://www.theguardian.c…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-22 02:44:50
Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system
Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon.
She spent the next few years as part of a Congress that passed wave after wave of laws to rein in future presidents.
A half-century later, Holtzman, a New York Democrat, is watching as Donald Trump takes aim at post-Watergate reforms …
