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A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her. (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/lauren-southern-tradwife-maga.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p127#a250811p127

Truthful Two-Obnoxious-Facility Location Games with Optional Preferences and Minimum Distance Constraint
Xiaojia Han, Wenjing Liu, Qizhi Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08036 ht…

Truthful Two-Obnoxious-Facility Location Games with Optional Preferences and Minimum Distance Constraint
In this paper, we study a truthful two-obnoxious-facility location problem, in which each agent has a private location in [0, 1] and a public optional preference over two obnoxious facilities, and there is a minimum distance constraint d between the two facilities. Each agent wants to be as far away as possible from the facilities that affect her, and the utility of each agent is the total distance from her to these facilities. The goal is to decide how to place the facilities in [0, 1] so as t…

Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/startup-behi…

Startup Behind Manus AI Agent Shuts Down China Team
The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, has shut down its entire China-based team, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. It’s the latest sign that Manus, whose biggest target market is the U.S., wants to minimize geopolitical risks associated with China ties. Butterfly Effect, the

Beyond Uniform Criteria: Scenario-Adaptive Multi-Dimensional Jailbreak Evaluation
Lai Jiang, Yuekang Li, Xiaohan Zhang, Youtao Ding, Li Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06194 http…

Beyond Uniform Criteria: Scenario-Adaptive Multi-Dimensional Jailbreak Evaluation
Precise jailbreak evaluation is vital for LLM red teaming and jailbreak research. Current approaches employ binary classification ( e.g., string matching, toxic text classifiers, LLM-driven methods), yielding only "yes/no" labels without quantifying harm intensity. Existing multi-dimensional frameworks ( e.g., Security Violation, Relative Truthfulness, Informativeness) apply uniform evaluation criteria across scenarios, resulting in scenario-specific mismatches--for instance, "Relative Truthful…

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
Computational sociology is growing in popularity, yet the analytic tools employed differ widely in power, transparency, and interpretability. In computer science, methods gain popularity after surpassing benchmarks of predictive accuracy, becoming the "state of the art." Computer scientists favor novelty and innovation for different reasons, but prioritizing technical prestige over methodological fit could unintentionally limit the scope of sociological inquiry. To illustrate, we focus on compu…

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
J\k{e}drzej Hodor, Freddie Illingworth, Tomasz Mazur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04445 https://

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
Huynh, Joret, Micek, Seweryn, and Wollan (Combinatorica, 2022) introduced a graph parameter, later referred to as 2-treedepth and denoted $\mathrm{td}_2(\cdot)$. The parameter is the natural 2-connected version of treedepth. For every graph, 2-treedepth is at most the treedepth but can be much smaller: long paths have arbitrary treedepth but 2-treedepth equal to 2. We prove a converse, showing that every graph $G$ with no induced path on $t$ vertices has treedepth less than $2 \cdot t^{\mathrm{…

Milwaukee's "The Bindery" is closing, but the message from the guy who ran things is a good one.
“If our closure feels like a loss… now’s your time to make a new version of what we started here. Now more than ever, we need print media that is truthful, joyous, emotional, smart and led by those in the margins..."
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He rocks in the treetops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song All the little birds on Jaybird Street love to hear the robin go tweet-tweet-twee
Rockin' robin, Rock-rock-rockin' robin'
Go rockin' robin 'cause we're really gonna rock tonight
Every little swallow, every chick-a-dee, every little bird in the tall oak tree The wise old owl, the big black crow flappin' their wings singin' "go bird, go"
Ro…

Is it just me, or are the #TourDeFrance commentators trying to be studiously neutral with respect to the Normandy landings?

Nexus: Taming Throughput-Latency Tradeoff in LLM Serving via Efficient GPU Sharing
Xiaoxiang Shi, Colin Cai, Junjia Du, Zhanda Zhu, Xingda Wei, Zhihao Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06608

Nexus: Taming Throughput-Latency Tradeoff in LLM Serving via Efficient GPU Sharing
Current prefill-decode (PD) disaggregation is typically deployed at the level of entire serving engines, assigning separate GPUs to handle prefill and decode phases. While effective at reducing latency, this approach demands more hardware. To improve GPU utilization, Chunked Prefill mixes prefill and decode requests within the same batch, but introduces phase interference between prefill and decode. While existing PD disaggregation solutions separate the phases across GPUs, we ask: can the sa…