2025-09-17 09:49:20
Conflect: Designing Reflective Thinking-Based Contextual Privacy Policy for Mobile Applications
Shuning Zhang, Sixing Tao, Eve He, Yuting Yang, Ying Ma, Ailei Wang, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12578
Conflect: Designing Reflective Thinking-Based Contextual Privacy Policy for Mobile Applications
Shuning Zhang, Sixing Tao, Eve He, Yuting Yang, Ying Ma, Ailei Wang, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12578
A Charlotte pastor said
Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid.
The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them.
Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not.
This is wrong!
https:…
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary
to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a
job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing
forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient
he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, bri…
Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?
Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Xianxuan Long, Qifan Wang, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12680
Look Again, Think Slowly: Enhancing Visual Reflection in Vision-Language Models
Pu Jian, Junhong Wu, Wei Sun, Chen Wang, Shuo Ren, Jiajun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12132 …
My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.
Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/thinking-machines-lab…
@… Thinking of you today as I heard the Robert Redford news — it’s always a good day to watch Sneakers
This framing doesn’t even touch the crucial forces of ego and identity formation and craving for belonging that are the bedrock of fascist movements like MAGA. Others are thinking productively about that, and it’s at least as important here!
That belief-as-identity phenomenon is also time-based. Somebody posted about those Young Republicans and their Telegram messages grooming and being groomed for fascism, and that’s right: it’s not just the existence of the fascist space; it’s the sustained process of drawing people in over time.
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@axbom@axbom.meAn intelligence assessment style-ish write up on the US by purported former professionals in the Intelligence Community (IC) who call themselves collectively The Steady State. Executive summary and scope statement seem like clear thinking.
https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/ac
I'm thinking that I need to start categorizing my photos from the last 10 years by towns. Bad news is, not all of them have GPS coordinates. Good news is, I have good memory for totally random stuff.
is thinking about wearing ear plugs while coding to avoid all of the barking coming from the living room.
OK fedi hivemind... I'm looking for a flat square of material about 1cm on a side and maybe 1mm thick that is going to survive being boiled in hot nitric/sulfuric acid for a couple of minutes, then rinsed in acetone and water.
I'm thinking a glass or ceramic, but don't have a source for ready made chunks of the right size (microscope coverglasses are too fragile).
You can get pre-diced silicon wafers with chunks the right size (e.g. Ted Pella 16006) but that's ann…
one of the best science youtube channels out there. And nice to have a way to enjoy space stuff without thinking about billionaires.
I Broke 100 Epoxy Bonds to Find the Strongest by BPS.space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1ME6kN2gI
Bill Cassidy cast the key vote for RFK Jr. What is he thinking now? (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/16/bill-cassidy-rfk-monarez-hearing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p124#a250916p124
@… @… My thinking exactly, that's why I rounded up the amount when I switched to SEPA ;-)
And why transfer CHF via the US!?
@… @… My thinking exactly, that's why I rounded up the amount when I switched to SEPA ;-)
And why transfer CHF via the US!?
"If you’re thinking all of this looks a lot like Musk trying to juice his #Tesla sales numbers—and therefore his Tesla stock share price—by playing a shell game with his own companies, you’re not alone. It isn’t quite the same as the disastrous special purpose entities that ultimately brought energy company #Enron
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary
to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a
job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing
forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient
he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, bri…
Human brains are not computers, but thinking of mine as a system with wildly insufficient ram and a slow, buggy swap that's always freezing and needing a full reboot is explaining a lot for me right now. #adhd
I can't quite decide if this article is Wes Streeting simply taking the absolute piss or finally realising he fucked up and now might be thinking of walking back somewhat.
Either way, he was part of causing all this hatred.
#ukpolitics #trans
Thinking about it now there was one other time, when it was claimed the battery life was impacted, but normally I'm all in. I mean, I get the new phone on Friday, so I'll be living in it then.
But I can't name one feature I'm looking forward to 🤪 https://mastodon.social/@boxspring/115
@… @… I was thinking of that song. Eilen Jewell covered it when she played at the Kennedy Center earlier this year. First time she'd ever covered it.
🎗️ Why people embrace conspiracy theories: It's about community, not gullibility
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-people-embrace-conspiracy-theories-community.html
"Central to Fletcher’s thesis is the concept of 'story thinking.' This cognitive framework aligns closely with how humans have evolved to process information and communicate experiences. He posits that storytelling is [...] a fundamental cognitive tool that shapes our actions and decisions. The ability to conceptualize new narratives allows humans to forge paths toward success, whether by escaping predators or devising innovative strategies in modern contexts".
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically https://www.noemamag.com/the-lost-art-of-thinking-historically
Thinking to do a run Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition on Steam...
Years ago I played but never ended it...
#baldursgate #retrogame #retrogaming
OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its "thinking" time more dynamically than previous models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/openai-upgrades-codex-wi…
How did anybody **EVER** think that having TABs vs. spaces be significant in makefiles was a good idea?
Yes, I'm well aware that I am not the first person in history who has ever had this particular complaint.
Still, it's been 40 years since I first encountered this, and I am **still** boggled. WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?
Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When
Constantin Venhoff, Iv\'an Arcuschin, Philip Torr, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07364 https…
AI in Computational Thinking Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Ebrahim Rahimi, Clara Maathuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09677 https://
Our realities are constantly diverging, and never completely shared. And we •want• that! It’s important for people to bring different experiences, different ways of seeing and thinking.
One person understands climate science. Another person understands the subculture of Southern Iowa. A third person knows what it’s like to live as a Black person in this society — and so on, to infinity. All these perspectives matter, and nobody gets to hold all infinity of them at once.
Nobody gets to be in full possession of absolute truth.
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I tried Claude "this time with more thinking!" because whatever, and it exhausted 5 hours of ai-llowance in like 5 minutes
George Pickens offers 5-word message to proposed Cowboys contract https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/george-pickens-offers-5-word-message-proposed-cowboys-contract/dfaa13ff2ab47b329…
Reading thoughts about a new Chinese openweights AI model, Kimi K2 Thinking.
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-thinking-what-it-means
Looking up Christina Chong on #Google after watching an episode of #STStrangeNewWorlds. 2 questions in Google changes the output to Christina Chang, a completely different person, age and nationality. If a human did that we'd call them racist for thinking all Asian people look al…
Curious what the thinking is for an edu to slice off a /24 that ended up at a Bulgarian web hoster.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KA30858R3DSVDK72F1EY82WM
#Muddledmaunderings caveat emptor
When I was 5, I saw my dad laying on his back, on my parents’ bed. Mildly puzzled, I asked what was he doing? I’m thinking, he said. After a beat, I said, oh, and went on wherever I was going. It hit me like a brick. The moment is graven on my memory. It was the first time I thought about my thinking. What was it? How did it work? How did I do it? (…
> The pope has condemned clickbait
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/you-wont-believe-what-degrading-practice-the-pope-just-condemned
Edited Collection, Reconfiguring Critical Thinking in Higher Education for the 21st Century
https://ift.tt/qIVegWG
updated: Friday, November 14, 2025 - 4:58pmfull name / name of organization: Angela Frattarola,…
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"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!
"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Sophie Jamieson:
🎵 I've Been Thinking about You All Day
#SophieJamieson
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://sophiejamieson.bandcamp.com/track/ive-been-thinking-about-you-all-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/4i07R0Wc8sBE8NGfCOb3DL
It's 25 degrees (F) higher than normal today, so I got in a run. I keep thinking that'll be it; it will get cold, and I'll be #running inside most of the time. But then this happens 😆
#runnersofmastodon
Of course we humans have never had a single “shared reality,” and we never will. But there are times places when we’ve had more robust ongoing sharing and boundary-crossing and comfort with the limits of our own understanding — “shared reality” not as a fact, but as a direction.
These thoughts are still forming, and I think that’s where my thread ends for today: no answers, but yet another plea for systems thinking.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sloan:
🎵 Magical Thinking
#Sloan
https://sloanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/magical-thinking
https://open.spotify.com/track/2f3JJNIasFBdtDMJRDAf0z
SHANKS: Simultaneous Hearing and Thinking for Spoken Language Models
Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Shujie Liu, Zhendong Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Hung-yi Lee, Lijuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06917
Pot lights are a mistake, an architectural foible that’s ubiquitous because it makes a place look glamorous when you’re walking through thinking of renting/buying it. Looks good in photos too. And they’re fine for cooking or reading because you’re looking down. But for activities like conversation or chilling in front of the screen, they glare annoyingly. Nice glass wall or ceiling light fixtures are way easier on the eyes.
@… I may be thinking of the war they called enduring freedom
> DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.”
The "screaming all the time" part is really common for people in government tech, albeit internal.
There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.
I'm thinking of (1) recording my #PIM lecture as a larger set of 5-30min video snippets (1 for each sub-topic) and/or
(2) writing a book with even more background information on the same subject including further links.
What would you consider more important to you personally?
Please do limit yourself to not more than 2 choices even if they are hard to do.
Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona
I was thinking about making/sewing my own bag but I got stuck on the closure because I kept thinking about zippers... but that's the beauty of a roll top bag, all you need is a buckle!
Heck, I could probably just 3D print one. (Though they also seem to be really cheap to just purchase them.)
#maker #DIY
FlexMind: Scaffolding Flexible Ideation Workflows with AI in Creative Problem-Solving
Yaqing Yang, Vikram Mohanty, Nikolas Martelaro, Aniket Kittur, Yan-Ying Chen, Matthew K. Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12408
“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…
3 outside-the-box ideas to fix Cowboys defense include hiring Bill Belichick https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/15/poach-belichick-3-ideas-to-fix-cowboys-defense-cra…
Always fun/challenging to read new AI (pre)papers like this. "Base models know how to reason, thinking models learn when".
#AI #Google #reasoning
This 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.
In June the U.S. Army commissioned four high-level tech executives into the army reserve as lieutenant colonels:
Palantir’s CTO,
Meta’s CTO,
OpenAI’s chief product officer,
and an adviser at Thinking Machines Lab who was formerly OpenAI’s chief research officer
https://infosec.exchange/@…
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B package in August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-departs-for-m…
CodePlot-CoT: Mathematical Visual Reasoning by Thinking with Code-Driven Images
Chengqi Duan, Kaiyue Sun, Rongyao Fang, Manyuan Zhang, Yan Feng, Ying Luo, Yufang Liu, Ke Wang, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Hongsheng Li, Yi Ma, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11718
Learning to Make MISTAKEs: Modeling Incorrect Student Thinking And Key Errors
Alexis Ross, Jacob Andreas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11502 https://arxiv.org…
“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
https://
This AI complaint is brought to you today by this ridiculous poster at Manhattan’s Guitar Center
“Make your dream tone a reality”, my ass.
Ever notice how 90% of AI marketing copy is literally just vague platitudes because they can’t actually think of any legitimate benefits or use cases?
“Be anything you imagine” = “we can’t imagine anything good enough to say here so you do the thinking for us”
I thought I would get an orange pro, but now I am thinking “Miguel you are a stylish person, you need the air” but a voice inside me says “you need as many camera lenses as Apple can put in there”
The next 35 hours will be packed with anxiety.
I keep thinking about working from a coffee shop... but what is the etiquette?
For example...
How much coffee and cake do I need to consume for every hour I am there?
Do I go for some kind of coffee crawl, moving from coffee shop to coffee shop, buying a drink from each one, staying for 30 mins or so?
I will be buzzing after the first couple of hours 😅
Co-working spaces are so very expensive... the one I used to go to didn't survive lockdown.
I've been thinking about trying OpenSuSE Tumbleweed for a few days now. My last attempt was several years ago.
#linux #opensource #freesoftware
Left #Bluesky or thinking about it? Into #genealogy or #familyhistory but don't know where to start? Follow @…
🚨 My friend Nouran is in danger!
Nouran and her family are one of the almost one million people stuck in the area that Israel has said it is going to destroy imminently.
They need money to afford to move South.
Please help if you can and please share so others can.
https://chuffed.org/pr…
Notes on Critical Thinking and Writing
https://ift.tt/9z2KlDM
updated: Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pmfull name / name of organization: Double Helixcontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://…
Thinking about self-hosting a chat system but it's really weird how militaristic the websites are !
E.g. rocket chat https://www.rocket.chat/ and mattermost https://
I know Star Wars is often kinda dumb. The movies are plot-holey and often kinda bad.
But seeing the first one with my almost 6 year old and playing Lego Star Wars with him is something special. Like the joy he feels seeing those characters do their weird shit, the way he really gets into thinking about the stories and why people do what and who they might have also talked to is just ... the best. I'm actually looking forward to watching even the prequels with him.
"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!
Considering how often Windows updates break things and the silicon valley mantra 'break things and fix later' I wonder if that is a safe way of thinking tech. This pod goes through how Volvo unintentionally diaabled the cars breaks by an update.
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/…
On a scale of zero to thinking about what would happen if humans lost all their skin every winter, how high are you?
FATHOMS-RAG: A Framework for the Assessment of Thinking and Observation in Multimodal Systems that use Retrieval Augmented Generation
Samuel Hildebrand (Louisiana State University), Curtis Taylor (Oak Ridge National Lab), Sean Oesch (Oak Ridge National Lab), James M Ghawaly Jr (Louisiana State University), Amir Sadovnik (Oak Ridge National Lab), Ryan Shivers (Oak Ridge National Lab), Brandon Schreiber (Oak Ridge National Lab), Kevin Kurian (University of Florida)
@axbom@axbom.meThe audacity of expecting others to spend their valuable time with content you put out there but never spent any real time thinking on.
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/9]:
- Towards Thinking-Optimal Scaling of Test-Time Compute for LLM Reasoning
Wenkai Yang, Shuming Ma, Yankai Lin, Furu Wei
Even the most radical-minded regularly fall into the trap of thinking that politicians are leaders. (It’s an easy trap; we call them “leaders” all the time.) I’ve been seeing a lot of that thinking in the complaints in my TL the last couple of days.
Politicians are always lagging indicators of change. They can be a tool of change, they can help systematize change, but they rarely •cause• it.
Politicians follow. People lead.
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On this Remembrance Day, let us bow our heads thinking of, along with those who died in yesterday’s wars, the ones who will die today in today’s wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_con…
Notes on Critical Thinking and Writing https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/10/notes-on-critical-thinking-and-writing
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/alibaba-backed-moonshot-releas…
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/2]:
- Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?
Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Xianxuan Long, Qifan Wang, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
Certainty-Guided Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Dynamic Thinking Budget Approach
Jo\~ao Paulo Nogueira, Wentao Sun, Alonso Silva, Laith Zumot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07820
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50B valuation, potentially rising to $55B-$60B (Bloomberg)
Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/xP4Vckn
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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@… thinking primarily about Vercel’s funding of Next, Svelte, and now Nuxt
Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning
Tong Zheng, Hongming Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Xinyu Yang, Runpeng Dai, Rui Liu, Huiwen Bao, Chengsong Huang, Heng Huang, Dong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07980
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, which automates the creation of custom frontier AI models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-first-product-fine-tune/
@… mostly thinking about Monday’s incident, where active build infections were still happening but (imo) very little communication about it as folks were (to be fair) scrambling to minimize the impact
I’ve seen posts about how Democratic politicians have to be “punished” and then they’ll shape up — even one horrifying post basically arguing that we need a couple more years for fascism to fully materialize in order to reform our political system.
My dude…this “people will wake up when it’s bad enough” trope doesn’t work. It’s never worked. It’s been failing spectacularly my whole life — and if one Trump term didn’t do it…what will? And how many people’s lives will be destroyed along the way?
That thinking will kill us all.
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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/