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Trump corrupts the minds of Americans
Normalizes bigotry, misogyny,
graft and greed
From: @apron.rupar@threads.net
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DP1koWjiWp9

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Neguse: "What Donald Trump and his administration are attempting to do is create this perception that he has all the power, and create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the American public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He is electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular president at this juncture than any modern president in the history of our country."

from my link log —
Two workers are quadratically better than one: modelling a queue with PRISM.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/queueing-prism/
saved 2020-11-02

And this is why it's never worth it to be a 'reddit moderator' 😂 https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-is-requesting-4-5-million-in-damages-from-a-reddit-moderator.675925

Instances of models of double-categorical theories
Kevin Carlson, Evan Patterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08861

Instances of models of double-categorical theories
We contribute a chapter in common to categorical database theory and to the study of higher morphisms between double categories. The common thread here is the notion of instance, or right module, which we generalize from functors from a plain category into Set to the models of a (cartesian) double theory. This provides a concept of instance for such objects as a category equipped with a monad, or a (symmetric) multicategory, recovering the multifunctors into Set in the latter case. We also show…

[Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens (@openaidevs)
https://x.com/openaidevs/status/1999184802755354954

OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) on X
GPT-5.2 is now available in the API—our most advanced frontier model for long-running agents. https://t.co/J5i4czpKsL

This sounds like a really cool sci-fi idea: a language model that is special-purpose, cheap and energy efficient and not connected to the internet so it can be built into household appliances. It might be the positive "residue" of an AI bubble crash.
But will those household appliance companies do it? They'd have to let go of their internet connected fridges and data collection. Maybe it'll be the FOSS and 3d-printing community who does it.

Artificial phantasia: Evidence for propositional reasoning-based mental imagery in large language models https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23108 on the representation of visual imagery in humans; more information in the Bluesky thread

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in their training data and can be accomplished solely using natural language, limiting our understanding of their emergent sophisticated cognitive capacities. In this work, we created dozens of novel items of a classic mental imagery task from cognitive psychology. A task which, traditionally, cognitive…

This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)

AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!
A chatbot is a wrapper around a large language model, an AI transformer model that’s been trained on the whole internet, all the books the AI vendor can find, and all the other text in the world. A…

Adaptive Execution Scheduler for DataDios SmartDiff
Aryan Poduri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07811 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07811

Adaptive Execution Scheduler for DataDios SmartDiff
We present an adaptive scheduler for a single differencing engine (SmartDiff) with two execution modes: (i) in-memory threads and (ii) Dask based parallelism. The scheduler continuously tunes batch size and worker/thread count within fixed CPU and memory budgets to minimize p95 latency. A lightweight preflight profiler estimates bytes/row and I/O rate; an online cost/memory model prunes unsafe actions; and a guarded hill-climb policy favors lower latency with backpressure and straggler mitigati…

Two-post thread:
1. https://bsky.app/profile/codingchaos.bsky.social/post/3m2aq4c2vxk2a
2. https://…

Sarah Higley (@codingchaos.bsky.social)
I feel this post deep in my bones, Alice gets right to the heart of why working on a11y in standards can feel like killing your soul by degrees. And also why it’s hard to stop. https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/