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A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her. (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/lauren-southern-tradwife-maga.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p127#a250811p127

Been playing this cool game on Switch called Insectum. It's tower defense/strategy with bugs. I love games like this.
#Switch #Insectum #TowerDefense

Understanding Economic Tradeoffs Between Human and AI Agents in Bargaining Games
Crystal Qian, Kehang Zhu, John Horton, Benjamin S. Manning, Vivian Tsai, James Wexler, Nithum Thain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09071

Understanding Economic Tradeoffs Between Human and AI Agents in Bargaining Games
Coordination tasks traditionally performed by humans are increasingly being delegated to autonomous agents. As this pattern progresses, it becomes critical to evaluate not only these agents' performance but also the processes through which they negotiate in dynamic, multi-agent environments. Furthermore, different agents exhibit distinct advantages: traditional statistical agents, such as Bayesian models, may excel under well-specified conditions, whereas large language models (LLMs) can genera…

Truthful Two-Obnoxious-Facility Location Games with Optional Preferences and Minimum Distance Constraint
Xiaojia Han, Wenjing Liu, Qizhi Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08036 ht…

Truthful Two-Obnoxious-Facility Location Games with Optional Preferences and Minimum Distance Constraint
In this paper, we study a truthful two-obnoxious-facility location problem, in which each agent has a private location in [0, 1] and a public optional preference over two obnoxious facilities, and there is a minimum distance constraint d between the two facilities. Each agent wants to be as far away as possible from the facilities that affect her, and the utility of each agent is the total distance from her to these facilities. The goal is to decide how to place the facilities in [0, 1] so as t…

Beyond Uniform Criteria: Scenario-Adaptive Multi-Dimensional Jailbreak Evaluation
Lai Jiang, Yuekang Li, Xiaohan Zhang, Youtao Ding, Li Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06194 http…

Beyond Uniform Criteria: Scenario-Adaptive Multi-Dimensional Jailbreak Evaluation
Precise jailbreak evaluation is vital for LLM red teaming and jailbreak research. Current approaches employ binary classification ( e.g., string matching, toxic text classifiers, LLM-driven methods), yielding only "yes/no" labels without quantifying harm intensity. Existing multi-dimensional frameworks ( e.g., Security Violation, Relative Truthfulness, Informativeness) apply uniform evaluation criteria across scenarios, resulting in scenario-specific mismatches--for instance, "Relative Truthful…

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
Computational sociology is growing in popularity, yet the analytic tools employed differ widely in power, transparency, and interpretability. In computer science, methods gain popularity after surpassing benchmarks of predictive accuracy, becoming the "state of the art." Computer scientists favor novelty and innovation for different reasons, but prioritizing technical prestige over methodological fit could unintentionally limit the scope of sociological inquiry. To illustrate, we focus on compu…

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
J\k{e}drzej Hodor, Freddie Illingworth, Tomasz Mazur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04445 https://

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
Huynh, Joret, Micek, Seweryn, and Wollan (Combinatorica, 2022) introduced a graph parameter, later referred to as 2-treedepth and denoted $\mathrm{td}_2(\cdot)$. The parameter is the natural 2-connected version of treedepth. For every graph, 2-treedepth is at most the treedepth but can be much smaller: long paths have arbitrary treedepth but 2-treedepth equal to 2. We prove a converse, showing that every graph $G$ with no induced path on $t$ vertices has treedepth less than $2 \cdot t^{\mathrm{…

NO REALLY https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

Ha!
"Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet"
https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives.

StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
Chenglei Shen, Zhongxiang Sun, Teng Shi, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04530

StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
Generating stylized large language model (LLM) responses via representation editing is a promising way for fine-grained output control. However, there exists an inherent trade-off: imposing a distinctive style often degrades truthfulness. Existing representation editing methods, by naively injecting style signals, overlook this collateral impact and frequently contaminate the model's core truthfulness representations, resulting in reduced answer correctness. We term this phenomenon stylization-…