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"But maybe the more complex reasoning for why #Starmer is such a vacant leader is that only such a man could have been elected as prime minister. Only a man characterised by the ability to identify who he must ingratiate himself with could have won the electoral race, placated powerful business interests and fended off the rightwing press"
Insightful from Nesrine Malik

'The Prime Minister told MPs that “we can’t just tax your way to growth” '
No, you tax the rich because you need to redistribute given that 'growth' is both broken and ecologically lethal.
Starmer rallies in support of the rich as he comes under pressure to tax wealth | Morning Star

The path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine.
#ukraine

Joint leaders’ statement on Peace for Ukraine
Statement by President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Starmer, President von der Leyen and President Stubb on Peace for Ukraine ahead of President Trump’s planned meeting with President Putin.

extended obit for magical power mako, japanese underground weirdo who departed earlier this year. https://oakiedog.substack.com/p/behold-the-magical-power

Behold: The Magical Power
“... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once...”― Primo Levi

What on earth has Starmer been smoking now?
'Keir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”.
Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India’s digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licenc…

D-LEAF: Localizing and Correcting Hallucinations in Multimodal LLMs via Layer-to-head Attention Diagnostics
Tiancheng Yang, Lin Zhang, Jiaye Lin, Guimin Hu, Di Wang, Lijie Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07864

D-LEAF: Localizing and Correcting Hallucinations in Multimodal LLMs via Layer-to-head Attention Diagnostics
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on tasks like image captioning and visual question answering, but remain prone to hallucinations, where generated text conflicts with the visual input. Prior work links this partly to insufficient visual attention, but existing attention-based detectors and mitigation typically apply uniform adjustments across layers and heads, obscuring where errors originate. In this paper, we first show these methods fail to accurately local…

Krishan Bhatia, Amazon's VP of global video advertising, is leaving; Bhatia joined Amazon in April 2024 after more than a decade as an ad sales leader at NBCU (Ad Age)
https://adage.com/media/tv-streaming/aa-amazon-ads-vp-krishan-bhatia-departs/

Amazon Ads VP Krishan Bhatia departs
The Prime Video and former NBCU ad leader announced his departure from Amazon Friday.

#SN83 (Düwag Wadloper) w naturalnym środowisku, na przystanku Słosinko.
#mikol

Self-resonant dark matter with $Z_4$ gauged symmetry
Lucca Radicce Justino, Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Jun-Ho Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06728 https://

Self-resonant dark matter with $Z_4$ gauged symmetry
We present a new model for two-component scalar dark matter (DM), consisting of two complex scalar fields. In this model, both the DM components are stable due to the remaining $Z_4$ gauge symmetry, which is the remnant of the $U(1)^\prime$ local symmetry. When the resonance condition for DM masses is fulfilled, we show that the elastic co-scattering processes between two components of dark matter ($u$-channel processes) are enhanced due to the Yukawa potential with a small effective mass for t…

Starmer: "It's un-British to have so little respect for others."
He conveniently ignores that more than 60,000 people murdered. 40,000 with life-changing injuries. Their homes and towns, the whole landscape flattened.
Murder is murder, wherever and whoever.
The #Genocide doesn't pause.
Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October - BBC News…

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October
The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.