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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Jack White:
🎵 Lazaretto
#JackWhite
https://themagicalmysterypoinsettiaplan.bandcamp.com/track/jack-white-lazaretto-cover-12-30-16-330-pm
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T76zPJz3tWL27FrjJe2ot

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Tom Hickox:
🎵 The Whole of the Moon
#NowPlaying #TomHickox
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rZngFBLrqv1InrSYjPlcg

Gimme Twinkies, gimme wine,
Gimme jeans by Calvin Kline ...
But if you split those atoms fine,
Mama keep 'em off those genes of mine!
Gimme zits, take my dough,
Gimme arsenic in my jelly roll ...
Call the devil and sell my soul,
But Mama keep dem atoms whole!
-- Milo Bloom, "The Split-Atom Blues," in "Bloom County"

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

The Impact of 2D Segmentation Backbones on Point Cloud Predictions Using 4D Radar
William L. Muckelroy III, Mohammed Alsakabi, John M. Dolan, Ozan K. Tonguz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19644

The Impact of 2D Segmentation Backbones on Point Cloud Predictions Using 4D Radar
LiDAR's dense, sharp point cloud (PC) representations of the surrounding environment enable accurate perception and significantly improve road safety by offering greater scene awareness and understanding. However, LiDAR's high cost continues to restrict the broad adoption of high-level Autonomous Driving (AD) systems in commercially available vehicles. Prior research has shown progress towards circumventing the need for LiDAR by training a neural network, using LiDAR point clouds as ground trut…

When Instructions Multiply: Measuring and Estimating LLM Capabilities of Multiple Instructions Following
Keno Harada, Yudai Yamazaki, Masachika Taniguchi, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21051

When Instructions Multiply: Measuring and Estimating LLM Capabilities of Multiple Instructions Following
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to real-world scenarios, it becomes crucial to understand their ability to follow multiple instructions simultaneously. To systematically evaluate these capabilities, we introduce two specialized benchmarks for fundamental domains where multiple instructions following is important: Many Instruction-Following Eval (ManyIFEval) for text generation with up to ten instructions, and Style-aware Mostly Basic Programming Problems (StyleMBPP) for…

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Modeselektor feat. Tommy Cash:
🎵 Who
#NowPlaying #Modeselektor #TommyCash
https://daveecho.bandcamp.com/track/modeselektor-feat-tommy-cash-who-dave-echo-mini-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0SLrmN7eDfGrGQKKji1nKF

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The New Seekers:
🎵 I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
#TheNewSeekers
https://open.spotify.com/track/42LmCuHr4XkXHTDqmVlNkB

ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yueh-Hua Wu, Min-Hung Chen, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16815

ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Vision-language-action (VLA) reasoning tasks require agents to interpret multimodal instructions, perform long-horizon planning, and act adaptively in dynamic environments. Existing approaches typically train VLA models in an end-to-end fashion, directly mapping inputs to actions without explicit reasoning, which hinders their ability to plan over multiple steps or adapt to complex task variations. In this paper, we propose ThinkAct, a dual-system framework that bridges high-level reasoning wit…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Catching Flies:
🎵 Care 4 U
#CatchingFlies
https://catchingflies.bandcamp.com/track/care-4-u
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HyeHFftm2QGWsp3yuF0Bp