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At least I know he comes to me for wisdom, when he hits the important questions of adolescence

"We stand by the accuracy of what we published,"
Reuters' statement read.
"We have carefully reviewed the published footage, and we have found no reason to believe Reuters longstanding commitment to accurate, unbiased journalism has been compromised."
The four-minute clip, released Sept. 3, captured Putin telling Xi that biotechnology could one day extend human life indefinitely.
"With continuous advances in biotechnology, human organs wi…

Reuters withdraws Putin-Xi immortality video after Chinese legal objections
Reuters on Sept. 5 withdrew a video in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were shown discussing whether humans could live to 150 years old, after China's state broadcaster revoked permission to use the footage.

Undecidability of Tiling with a Tromino
ULB CompGeom Group, Zachary Abel, Hugo Akitaya, Lily Chung, Erik D. Demaine, Jenny Diomidova, Della Hendrickson, Stefan Langerman, Jayson Lynch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07906

Undecidability of Tiling with a Tromino
Given a periodic placement of copies of a tromino (either L or I), we prove co-RE-completeness (and hence undecidability) of deciding whether it can be completed to a plane tiling. By contrast, the problem becomes decidable if the initial placement is finite, or if the tile is a domino instead of a tromino (in any dimension). As a consequence, tiling a given periodic subset of the plane with a given tromino (L or I) is co-RE-complete. We also prove co-RE-completeness of tiling the entire plan…

The Lean project is looking for someone to work on a documentation tool for math/technical communication. This is likely to be very influential, so a chance for someone with the right skills to have great impact. See the announcement here:
https://

Public view of Lean | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in Lean without logging in.

Todd Bowles: Shilo Sanders has 'got a chance' to make Buccaneers roster https://www.nfl.com/news/todd-bowles-shilo-sanders-has-got-a-chance-to-make-buccaneers-roster

So sad. The first #glacier I saw in 2018, during our honeymoon.
Indeed at a time they were telling us the glacier wasn’t really impacted by climate change, I had not truly understood why.
Such a majestic and unique place to visit.

The stereotype for this kind of self-narrowing is math/tech people avoiding humanities. That certainly happens, but I see it at least as often in the other direction: people avoiding anything that smells like STEM, telling themselves they can’t, building a whole identity around it. It comes out as this weird kind of shame/pride mix — “I’m not a math person” etc — which tends to hide some kind of earlier trauma: bad teacher, bad curriculum, gender role policing, who knows.

Round Aztec windows, a dual of the Aztec diamond theorem and a curious symmetry of the correlation of diagonal slits
Mihai Ciucu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06451 https://…

Round Aztec windows, a dual of the Aztec diamond theorem and a curious symmetry of the correlation of diagonal slits
Fairly shortly after the publication of the Aztec diamond theorem of Elkies, Kuperberg, Larsen and Propp in 1992, interest arose in finding the number of domino tilings of an Aztec diamond with an ``Aztec window,'' i.e.\ a hole in the shape of a smaller Aztec diamond at its center. Several intriguing patterns were discovered for the number of tilings of such regions, but the numbers themselves were not ``round'' -- they didn't seem to be given by a simple product formula. In this paper we consi…

Tell Me Without Telling Me: Two-Way Prediction of Visualization Literacy and Visual Attention
Minsuk Chang, Yao Wang, Huichen Will Wang, Yuanhong Zhou, Andreas Bulling, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03713

Tell Me Without Telling Me: Two-Way Prediction of Visualization Literacy and Visual Attention
Accounting for individual differences can improve the effectiveness of visualization design. While the role of visual attention in visualization interpretation is well recognized, existing work often overlooks how this behavior varies based on visual literacy levels. Based on data from a 235-participant user study covering three visualization tests (mini-VLAT, CALVI, and SGL), we show that distinct attention patterns in visual data exploration can correlate with participants' literacy levels: W…

Interesting debian-user find:
The YouDao plugin of the stardict-plugin package on Debian by default captures the X selection buffer — which can be FROM OTHER APPS — and sends the entire text, unencrypted, to remote servers, without telling the user that it will do this.
The maintainer has marked this bug as "wishlist" because they consider the mention of this in the package description to be sufficient warning.
The package can be pulled in as a Recommends.