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Summer 2025 Picks for Adults der New York Public Library:
https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommend…

World of Good Brands, formerly Leaf Group, shuts down after owner Graham Holdings sold off its last three titles; Graham Holdings acquired it in 2021 for $323M (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/world-of-good-brands-sale-well-good-ziff-davis/

World of Good Brands Sells Off Portfolio, Lays Off Staff, and Shutters 
The closure represents the end of the digital media company once known as Intent Media.

Dear Computer History people: I'm searching for books covering the history of the MIT Media Lab.The only one I found so far is "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, released in 1988. So a bit dated. Are you aware of other titles, which also cover the time AFTER 1988? It might be titles on other subjects but with a significant amount on the MIT Media Lab.
Edit: There is some material on their website as well:

History – MIT Media Lab
A brief history of the Media LabWhen the MIT Media Lab first opened its doors in 1985, it combined a vision of a digital future with a new style of creative in…

I have published a silly Death Stranding 2 (free) subscriber-only post: https://marginally.ghost.io/a-series-of-cringe-alternate-titles-for-ds2/

A Series of Cringe Alternate Titles for DS2
Grasping increments by the root.

I really like the #Murderbot opening titles! CGI made to look like 3D-printed plastic puppets. Made by Elastic (elastic.tv).
https://motionographer.com/quickie/ela

Colts announce ownership transition from late Jim Irsay to his 3 daughters https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6414311/2025/06/09/colts-ownership-jim-irsay-nfl-daughters/

Trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas will be stripped of her titles after university bends the knee to Trump admin (Chris Nesi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/us-news/trans-upenn-swimmer-lia-thomas-to-have-titles-stripped-as-university-bends-the-knee-to-trump-admin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p169#a250701p169

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner plans to mandate that all staff spend at least four days per week in the office, impacting staff at titles like Politico (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/axel-springer-to-m…

Exploring Gender Bias Beyond Occupational Titles
Ahmed Sabir, Rajesh Sharama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02679 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Exploring Gender Bias Beyond Occupational Titles
In this work, we investigate the correlation between gender and contextual biases, focusing on elements such as action verbs, object nouns, and particularly on occupations. We introduce a novel dataset, GenderLexicon, and a framework that can estimate contextual bias and its related gender bias. Our model can interpret the bias with a score and thus improve the explainability of gender bias. Also, our findings confirm the existence of gender biases beyond occupational stereotypes. To validate o…

Today I'm fixing about a gazillion little issues with our website, mostly for SEO reasons:
- All pages should now have a semantically relevant H1 Tag
- Found the last few page titles that didn't make sense and fixed them
- Our logo had no ALT attribute
- The font in the Survey Chart Tooltips was wrong
- Generally survey charts had wayyy to many decimals
- OpenGraph tags are weird but whatever
Keeping technical debt down is like brushing your teeth…

Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and more (Kelly Lawler/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment…

Exclusive: Roku launches Howdy, a cheap, ad-free streaming service
Amid rising subscription fees for most streaming services, Roku is launching Howdy, a $3 per month streamer with thousands of titles and no ads.

Here's everything you need to know about a Super Sunday of RI high school championships https://www.providencejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/08/high-school-scoreboard-for-sunday…

More of this, please. https://me.dm/@funcrunch/114751288573182357

"Seeing No Red Flags: Why Do Authors Ignore Journal Titles?" https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2025.2530958 [closed access 🙄]
"Publication scams have plagued academia for decades, with fraudulent journals impersonating legitimate ones to deceive authors. Compounding the…

A look at The Daily, which runs 14 UK lifestyle titles with a model where contributors keep the first £500 and then split revenue 50/50 with founder Marc Astley (Killian Faith-Kelly/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/p…

Former editor switches from local news to lifestyle with launch of 14 titles
Marc Astley's Daily model offers his editors a 50/50 revenue share.

"They ran the bare job titles through GPT, without looking at the details of the specific jobs, and got the chatbot to guess what those titles would have meant. Then they decided the chatbot could do most of the jobs. They were, after all, using the chatbot to do their job."
Rule: your job can successfully be taken over by a chatbot if it comes with no accountability.

I tried using top LLMs for research and it was disastrous. o3 result looked appealing and did not make up studies titles, but the info allegedly extracted from them was completely hallucinated. Gemini 2.5 pro, while less bad, constantly made up a study title. Claude Opus 4 did not try to answer and just redirect me to PubMed.

This week's #GrindayFriday is new EP 'Buried Half Dead' by Dayton, Ohio's DEAD FILTH. Super gross song titles here, as you'd expect with goregrind. But there's some real dynamics and interesting riffing going on in some of this. The drums are great. Several spots of unique genius. And you can listen to this whole thing in just a couple minutes.

New on the British Newspaper archive this week: The Baptists Times #nonconformists

There are all sorts of movies where I can’t remember the name, but certain iconic lines have become the titles for me instead:
“Get Your Ass to Mars: Two Weeks”
I just used that and nobody missed a beat in the conversation.

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Multi-Document Summarization of Impact-Ranked Papers
Paris Koloveas, Serafeim Chatzopoulos, Dionysis Diamantis, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Thanasis Vergoulis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03962

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Multi-Document Summarization of Impact-Ranked Papers
The growing volume of scientific literature makes it challenging for scientists to move from a list of papers to a synthesized understanding of a topic. Because of the constant influx of new papers on a daily basis, even if a scientist identifies a promising set of papers, they still face the tedious task of individually reading through dozens of titles and abstracts to make sense of occasionally conflicting findings. To address this critical bottleneck in the research workflow, we introduce a …

The more I'm exposed to AAA games, the more I'm encouraged to check out Indie games and revisit offline titles that I already own.
In AAA, there's barely anything new that excites me that hasn't already been done tbh. It's all iterative.
#Gaming #VideoGames

Texas Fury Texans and Jaguars Elite win titles at NFL Flag Championships https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/texas-fury-texans-and-jaguars-elite-win-titles-at-nfl-flag-championships

#TIL: Canada is a global hammerthrow powerhouse. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a--YFZQWC3Riel9pofq186JA:a%3…

Canada's Katzberg, Rogers win hammer throw titles at Kip Keino Classic
Canada's top hammer throwers continued to shine at the World Athletics Continental Tour in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday. Reigning world and Olympic …

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

From One AFC West Club To Another: The Division Of RBs Stays Strong https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/04/from-one-afc-west-club-to-another-division-of-rbs/

Saw this "Followed hashtags" collapsible list on mastodon.social (v4.4.0 nightly), wondering how long the list of hashtags will be.
Turns out it's hard-coded to 4 🤷‍♂️
- Initial PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

Analysis: 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 (Ichiro Lambe/Totally Human Media)
https://www.totallyhuman.io/blog/the-surprising-new-number-of-genai-gam…

The NEW Surprising Number of Steam Games that Use GenAI — Totally Human Media
A year ago, I poked around Steam to see how many game developers were disclosing usage of Generative AI . It was around 1,000, which seemed like a lot to me at the time. If memory serves, that was about 1.1% of the entire Steam library, which has since seen 20,000+ more titles appear. I've been fol

This is awesome https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/114863892514559699

Hey #Jellyfin for #Roku peeps, we're trying something new this round.
We have a 3.0.7 release candidate ready and are asking for testers!
You can find the RC-1 zip file, the source code, and the release notes at

I have never opened a Reddit account. However they send me emails with titles like "Updates to Reddit’s Privacy Policy and User Agreement"
I think someone must be posing as me - or just using my gmail address. I have had a persistent "Stephen Rees" who uses gmail with the two names the other way round.
I can't close this Reddit account as I didn't open it. But its address is u/BagOk7706 - which you might be able to access and disabuse

Seeing talk titles at #ic2s2 I can't be the only one, when reading LLM or AI, having to react with "oh, yet another one 🙄"? No disrespect to colleague's work, but the topic feels overhyped.. Not *everything* needs an LLM angle. #grinchmoment

I'm increasingly hesitant to click on recommended videos with intriguing-sounding titles on YouTube, especially science, lifehack, or celebrity oriented. It takes a while to realise the narrator's voice sounds off, the title was a clickbait, or that the video doesn't tell anything with substance. Then you check the channel page and you see that some poor devil with a get-rich-quick scheme in mind has churned out 85 AI(-aided) videos in the last month, amassing tens of thousands o…

$Music Makes My World Go Round!
Please checkout my #Vinyl & CD Collection ... I hit a fiscal brick wall of bills and may be up to part with some choice titles...
My loss is yer gain ..See Something Suitable?
OK Mastodon #makemeanoffer !

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Vangelis:
🎵 Blade Runner (end titles)
#Vangelis
https://soulbit.bandcamp.com/track/vangelis-blade-runner-blues-soul-bit-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/575blCgesVtCu0HEYaIcas

Universal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Pictures to Big Tech: We’ll Sue If You Steal Our Movies For AI
The studio is getting more aggressive about protecting its films from companies pirating them.

One of the best books ever written about punk/straight edge. If you haven't read it already, put it on your list:
#GabrielKuhn

Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-ab…

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back
As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

Wie lang bis “Discover Religion(s)”? Schon das MPDI-Journal “Religions” war ja ein unverfrorener Rip-Off des tatsächlich renommierten Journals “Religion”. via @…
https://openbibli…

Lambert Heller (@Lambo@openbiblio.social)
Attached: 1 image "Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants). (...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...) Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the author…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Vangelis:
🎵 Blade Runner (Main Titles)
#Vangelis
https://open.spotify.com/track/1u1ATklwZesAvq1whHsI8Z

2025 Eagles game-by-game predictions: Repeating won't come easy for the champs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-eagles-2025-season-game-by-game

McClatchy will shutter In Touch, Life & Style, Closer, and First for Women in June, laying off their staffs, after acquiring the titles in a December merger (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreport…

In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Magazines to Shutter, Lay Off Entire Staffs
“Despite the best efforts of many of our talented colleagues, we have been unable to develop a profitable business model for four of our magazine titles,” a McClatchy spokesperson tells THR.

CARTS: Collaborative Agents for Recommendation Textual Summarization
Jiao Chen, Kehui Yao, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Kai Zhao, Jianpeng Xu, Jason Cho, Evren Korpeoglu, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17765

CARTS: Collaborative Agents for Recommendation Textual Summarization
Current recommendation systems often require some form of textual data summarization, such as generating concise and coherent titles for product carousels or other grouped item displays. While large language models have shown promise in NLP domains for textual summarization, these approaches do not directly apply to recommendation systems, where explanations must be highly relevant to the core features of item sets, adhere to strict word limit constraints. In this paper, we propose CARTS (Colla…

Multilingual JobBERT for Cross-Lingual Job Title Matching
Jens-Joris Decorte, Matthias De Lange, Jeroen Van Hautte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21609 https://

Multilingual JobBERT for Cross-Lingual Job Title Matching
We introduce JobBERT-V3, a contrastive learning-based model for cross-lingual job title matching. Building on the state-of-the-art monolingual JobBERT-V2, our approach extends support to English, German, Spanish, and Chinese by leveraging synthetic translations and a balanced multilingual dataset of over 21 million job titles. The model retains the efficiency-focused architecture of its predecessor while enabling robust alignment across languages without requiring task-specific supervision. Ext…

#humor #comedy #music #rock

What a difference a day makes? Times gives Superman 2/5 then gives it 5/5.
(The Times and The Sunday Times are different in terms of editorial, but from a web perspective it looks like they changed their mind.)

ACM Survey Draft on Formalising Software Requirements with Large Language Models
Arshad Beg, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Rosemary Monahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14627

ACM Survey Draft on Formalising Software Requirements with Large Language Models
This draft is a working document, having a summary of nighty-four (94) papers with additional sections on Traceability of Software Requirements (Section 4), Formal Methods and Its Tools (Section 5), Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) and Theory of Institutions (Section 6). Please refer to abstract of [7,8]. Key difference of this draft from our recently anticipated ones with similar titles, i.e. AACS 2025 [7] and SAIV 2025 [8] is: [7] is a two page submission to ADAPT Annual Conference, I…

Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and more (Kelly Lawler/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment…

Exclusive: Roku launches Howdy, a cheap, ad-free streaming service
Amid rising subscription fees for most streaming services, Roku is launching Howdy, a $3 per month streamer with thousands of titles and no ads.

2025 Eagles game-by-game predictions: Repeating won't come easy for the champs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-eagles-2025-season-game-by-game

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is "currently being developed" for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3315…

Tencent-owned Supercell to launch titles like Clash Royale as WeChat mini games
The video game Brawl Stars is already available within WeChat, while Clash Royale will exclusively launch on the messaging app in September.

"And we are doing it all with backward compatibility, so gamers could access their favourite titles across platforms." I guess they felt it should be stated even more clearly, since no one was really sure if Xbox console games would be included in this open strategy ->
AMD & Xbox | Advancing the Future of Gaming
https://w…

Buss family sells Lakers to Mark Walter for record $10 billion valuation; Top 100 prospects for NBA Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/buss-…

Oh yeah, my copy of the Psygnosis book is being shipped ✌️
#psygnosis

Seeing talk titles at #ic2s2 I can't be the only one, when reading LLM or AI, having to react with "oh, yet another one 🙄"? No disrespect to colleague's work, but the topic feels overhyped.. Not *everything* needs an LLM angle. #grinchmoment

Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/nintendo-switch-2-review

Nintendo Switch 2 review: bigger, faster, and the best handheld since Game Boy
Our full review and 30+ photos of The Shortcut team testing the Nintendo Switch 2 for a week

The Atlantic launches a new games hub, available on the web and in the app, featuring a mix of already available games, as well as some new puzzles (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/687721/the-atlantic-games-hub-bracket-city

The Atlantic is making a big push into games
The publication is launching a new hub for its games, including titles like Bracket City and Caleb’s Inferno Crossword Puzzle.

Two years after launch, Reach's US project is profitable, has a 70-person team, and one editor-in-chief for all three US titles, Mirror, Express, and Irish Star (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/reach-in-t…

Reach in the US: 70-strong team is turning a profit with more growth planned
A “methodical” approach to building audiences for Reach brands Mirror, Express and Irish Star in the US has “proven they can wash their own face”.

A review of Empire of the Elite, NYT media reporter Michael Grynbaum's new book about the "insider-outsiders" who led Condé Nast titles in their heyday (Christian Lorentzen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/books/revi…

Book Review: ‘Empire of the Elite,’ by Michael M. Grynbaum
“Empire of the Elite,” by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American magazines in their heyday.