@cdarwin@c.imNew Jersey Sen. Andy Kim said he’s still in the dark about the future of the Gateway Tunnel Project
after President Donald Trump declared it dead in the water.
The senator again warned of “catastrophic” consequences if the Hudson River crossings aren’t built.
Work had already begun on the $16 billion,
9-mile passenger rail link to Manhattan’s Penn Station when Trump
—in an apparent act of political revenge against New York Sen. Chuck Schumer
—said it was “t…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?
Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.
🧑💻 https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance
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@hex@kolektiva.socialThe implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
@arXiv_physicsgenph_bot@mastoxiv.pageGravitational deflection of charged massive particle around charged galactic wormhole
Md Khalid Hossain, Farook Rahaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06294 https://
@hippyjo@c.imAnother of the butchers of Bucha meets death. Still, justice is not served for the victims- nothing can make things right again.
Georgio reports from the trenches of democracy. sharing the receipts with a friend link to bypass the paywall.
Georgio's work stands out for many reasons, it will be evidence in future war crimes trials.
Please support his work, watch his YouTube reports, and share the links so everyone can learn the truth of what is actually happening in Ukr…
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge could soon decide whether tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Texas could lose their ability to work in the US legally under the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) immigration program
– prompting fears of upheaval and heartbreak.
As part of the years-long legal battle over Daca,
US district court judge Andrew Hanen is set to rule on competing proposals for the future of the Obama-era program.
One of those proposals, submitted …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe ideas that finally bubbled up to the surface in The Point of No Return last night have been festering in the back of my brain for months. Because, although it's a bit inchoate, it's only saying out loud what most of us already know.
The job now is no longer to turn the ship around. We don't have the wheel, and those who do will not listen.
The task now is to build lifeboats. To build resilient spaces in which fragments of humanity can survive.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialSweden just invested $12M in solar cells that work indoors.
Exeger's Powerfoyle technology could eliminate disposable batteries in everyday electronics by harvesting energy from indoor and outdoor light. The flexible solar cells reduce dependence on critical raw materials while offering high conductivity.
This funding will help scale production and move us closer to a battery-free future for consumer devices.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey
@jake4480@c.imRewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw
#film
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA survey of 16K creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom)
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creators-survey
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialEdit: that was fast!! I got it now THANK YOU :)
Does anyone have pdf of this article?
@cdarwin@c.imUntil now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that.
New Work World: The administration contends that injured laborers have more access to technology and more nonphysical job options than in the past.
Red State Blues: Under the plan, millions — particularly in states that voted for Trump — could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialGuess who Alec Baldwin had on his podcast.
Listen to the episode and hear YDS student Andrea Barton Reeves '26 M.A.R. discuss her work ensuring accessibility to services and support for thousands of Connecticut residents, and how she remains grounded in her values of transparency, integrity, and service to others. #WeAreCalled
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialImagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageMan-in-the-Middle Proof-of-Concept via Krontiris' Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) in C
Daniel Hennig, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10574 https…
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Portfolio Pod
The Portfolio Pod explores the future of executive careers and work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-portfolio-pod/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The most reliable predictor of future conflict in a place is past conflict in that place. In large part, this is because of unresolved injustices. Resentments over past crimes simmer. Then, they boil over.
In other words, 'they got away with mass murder' is not a great way to build a lasting peace" -- @…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageWeighted Stochastic Differential Equation to Implement Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow
Herlock Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17878
arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which sampling is driven by a combination of deterministic drift and Brownian diffusion, resulting in continuous particle trajectories in the ambient space. While such dynamics enjoy exponential convergence guarantees for strongly log-concave target distributions, it is well known that their mixing rates deteriorate exponentially in the presence of nonconvex or multimodal landscapes, such as double-well potentials. Since many practical generative modeling tasks involve highly non-log-concave target distributions, considerable recent effort has been devoted to developing sampling schemes that improve exploration beyond classical diffusion dynamics.
A promising line of work leverages tools from information geometry to augment diffusion-based samplers with controlled mass reweighting mechanisms. This perspective leads naturally to Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao (WFR) geometries, which couple transport in the sample space with vertical (reaction) dynamics on the space of probability measures. In this work, we formulate such reweighting mechanisms through the introduction of explicit correction terms and show how they can be implemented via weighted stochastic differential equations using the Feynman--Kac representation. Our study provides a preliminary but rigorous investigation of WFR-based sampling dynamics, and aims to clarify their geometric and operator-theoretic structure as a foundation for future theoretical and algorithmic developments.
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@brichapman@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imMIT Provost
Anantha P. Chandrakasan told an audience of about 300 undergraduates from the Class of 2029:
“The goal is for MIT to become one of the world’s most prolific, collaborative, and interdisciplinary sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge over the next decade...
It is something we need to do urgently, and today is your opportunity to play a role in that bold mission.”
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.pageCatalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Spencer Boone, Joan Pau Sanchez Cuartialles, St\'ephanie Lizy-Destrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12421
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.pageGamma-Ray Spectra of $R$-Process Nuclei
Axel Gross, Samuel Cupp, Matthew R Mumpower
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08560
@arXiv_grqc_bot@mastoxiv.pageParticle creation in a cosmological background in analogy to the Schwinger effect
Walter D. van Suijlekom, Michael F. Wondrak, Heino Falcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09481 http…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis evening I have been listening to one of @… 's podcasts and thinking about my failure in trying to lead the village's planning working group, and about the cognitive dissonance underlying my Tricycle project. I suspect this essay will be a grim read; it's not well formed in my mind as I sit down to write.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…
@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot@mastoxiv.pageDevelopment of 3D Pixel Sensors via an 8-inch CMOS-Compatible Process
Huimin Ji, Zhihua Li, Wenzheng Cheng, Zheng Li, Kai Huang, Jing Wen, Song Liu, Manwen Liu, Jun Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10031
@arXiv_csMA_bot@mastoxiv.pageAutonomous vehicles need social awareness to find optima in multi-agent reinforcement learning routing games
Anastasia Psarou, {\L}ukasz Gorczyca, Dominik Gawe{\l}, Rafa{\l} Kucharski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11410
@arXiv_csCE_bot@mastoxiv.pageEvaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Negin Esmaeili, Paul T. Grogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10859 https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFinancial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon
@cdarwin@c.imThe A.I. insurance market is in its infancy, but Mr. Kvist says mainstream insurers are lining up to back him.
One of his clients is a job recruiting company that uses A.I. to sift through candidates.
“Which is great, but you can now discriminate at a scale we’ve never seen before,” Mr. Kvist said.
“It’s a breeding ground for class-action lawsuits.”
Mr. Kvist believes the work he is doing now will lay the foundation for more complex A.I. insurance policies to come.
@kingconsult@berlin.socialDon't miss this keynote by @… and @…!
> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults
📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam
> @…, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @… is doing to make a positive future possible.
#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25
