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Just published 🚀: Here’s how to turn off Copilot
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Collaborative Rational Speech Act: Pragmatic Reasoning for Multi-Turn Dialog
Lautaro Estienne, Gabriel Ben Zenou, Nona Naderi, Jackie Cheung, Pablo Piantanida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14063

Collaborative Rational Speech Act: Pragmatic Reasoning for Multi-Turn Dialog
As AI systems take on collaborative roles, they must reason about shared goals and beliefs-not just generate fluent language. The Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework offers a principled approach to pragmatic reasoning, but existing extensions face challenges in scaling to multi-turn, collaborative scenarios. In this paper, we introduce Collaborative Rational Speech Act (CRSA), an information-theoretic (IT) extension of RSA that models multi-turn dialog by optimizing a gain function adapted from…

Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use Quest 3 devices to scan a room and turn it into a VR space in minutes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyper…

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR | TechCrunch
Meta launches Hyperscape into beta, allowing users to turn real world spaces into digital spaces for VR.

WEEKLY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP: 10/19/25
Here’s a recap of the good things that have happened over the past week
in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration,
and to turn this ship around!
These are the headlines -- you can read the digest of the full articles (for free, you don't have to be a member) here:

Weekly Good News Roundup - 10/19/25
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened over the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!

Jets bench struggling QB Justin Fields vs. Panthers, turn to Tyrod Taylor https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6731216/2025/10/19/jets-justin-fields-benched-tyrod-taylor/

The company known for good design messing up so bad they have to introduce a toggle to turn off their new design.
Truly epic stuff.
Can Cook resign yet and let someone who knows what they're doing run the show?

My iOS 2026 adoption slowly coming along - are there some many elements you think need to be glass-ified that I missed?
I have not yet developed a good intuition for it as I have mostly been using iOS 26 on my phone.
But I audited most dialogs - and those are doing mostly fine - still struggling with how to turn my hierarchy of colors into glass and materials (last screenshot shows one such area of struggle):

Gewagte Aufnahmen - Ex-Turn-Beauty löst mit Fotos Kontroverse aus #News #Nachrichten…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

irgendwann lernen KI agenten dass man türen repariert indem man "techniker ist informiert, bitte hinterausgang nutzen" schilder daran hängt
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-database-called-it…

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Fall Dramatically To Their Lowest Level In A Year. Only 4,306 sold in Q2, that's 50% less than the year before.
At this rate, it'll take until the year 2085 for Musk's "1 million reservations" to turn into sales. https://insideevs.com/news/766162…

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Fall Dramatically To Their Lowest Level In A Year
The controversial electric pickup was once a bestseller. Now it’s struggling to stay relevant.

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

Aaaand that's how it starts.

Some of the fogs in the pots want to reach out and turn the heat up in hopes that others will start to feel the water getting warmer.

Bus services in Galloway have been catastrophically cut. This is because local government is broke, which is in turn because #SNP #ScotGov lacks the courage to reform local taxation.
I hadn't appreciated how bad the situation is because I've been ill since July and consequently haven't lef…

Sure, friends who drop by with drinks or food are great, but have you tried friends who turn up with power tools?

Enraged Democratic candidates turn on their own leaders (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/democrats-primary-congress-house-anger-candidates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p19#a251021p19

Figured it was finally time to watch Audition (オーディション, 1999) today. Always meant to.
#horror #Japan

Audition (1999)
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

"Nuclear waste could be a source of fuel in future reactors"
#NuclearPower #Energy
https://

Nuclear waste could be a source of fuel in future reactors
From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion—a process that fuses atoms together, releasing heat to turn generators—could provide vast energy supplies with minimal emissions. But nuclear fusion is an expensive prospect because one of its main fuels is a rare version of hydrogen called tritium.

https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/

How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS
Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS to suit your needs.

I've expanded a bit on my reflections about #inaturalist's push for using LLMs to regurgitate user-generated insights - and why replacing human peer-to-peer learning is likely harmful to people's motivations.
Read it here: #citizenscience

if you are on LinkedIn, and you don't want AI using your data?
Turn it off...
(It was recommend by a colleague from mine, so just sharing with you too)
https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

my brother told me that he recently found out his partner doesn't have habits. as in, every time she goes to brush her teeth, she has to make a mental plan of the steps: "turn on water", etc, before she does it. this seems so strange to me, and to him.
also, how does he know her well, but not know that about her?
there's an old scifi trope: can you write an alien that thinks differently from humans, but is just as intelligent? the unexamined question is: how do …

It's also worth challenging other anarchists and leftists. A lot of the folks going to these protests imagine themselves on the same side (even when they support the systems of oppression we oppose, even when they don't get that statements like "laws are real" are defenses of fascism not a rejections of it). Liberals espouse values and fail to live up to them. How do we help them close the gap between what they say they believe and the actions they take?
After decades of telling them what's going to happen and then having it happen, now that they're finally starting to see the world we've been yelling about, how do we turn "I fucking told you" into an invitation?
People don't like to lie. Cognitive dissonance doesn't feel good. There are people who are feeling it now, people who've never felt it in this way before. How do we help them resolve it?
How do we best use this opportunity to invite people, to open up to those who've always wanted to be with us but never believed that a better world is possible?

In case anyone is wondering how my day has been. #Sysadminnery #IHateWindows

Leaked AMD FSR 4 INT8 Files Help Users Turn On FSR 4 On Radeon RX 7000 On Windows; Works on RDNA 2 & RTX 30 Series GPUs Too
https://wccftech.com/leaked-amd-fsr-4-int8-files-helps-users-turn-on-fsr-4-on-rx-7000-on-windows/

Leaked AMD FSR 4 INT8 Files Help Users Turn On FSR 4 On Radeon RX 7000 On Windows; Works on RDNA 2 &…
AMD accidentally released the FSR 4 DLL Int8 file that enables FSR 4 on RX 7000 GPUs, and users are already seeing drastic changes.

I rode on this street (15th Ave NE) 1000s of times with no bike lane, when I used to live on 16th Ave NE. It sucked. I pointed out that drivers only really parked on one side of the street. The city had a plan to repave and add a protected bike lane, but it was delayed for years due to, of all things, "natural gas" pipe expansions. I moved to NYC before they started the project.
It looks SO GOOD, and just as I predicted, the parking is not overloaded despite being on only one…

The good thing about AI is that if you have a fragment of a stupid idea, it can easily turn it into a whole stupid thing
The Whole of the Bum
I pictured a cheek,
You showed me the pair.
I saw just a glimpse,
You bared it with flair.
I looked at a crack,
You gave me the run.
I saw a shadow,
You showed me the bum.
Chorus
Oh, I saw a dimple,
You saw the sum.
I saw a wrinkle,
You saw the whole of the bum.
I saw a half…

Trying out a new setup to write with markdown (diving into the murky world of modal editors), and `harper-ls` keeps flagging my sentences when they get longer than 40 words.
Imagining writing a sociology paper with no sentences over 40 words is giving me a good chuckle but also making me think about the relative inaccessibility of academic writing.
(part of the issue is that in-text citations count toward the sentence length. And yes, I've managed to turn off the long-sentenc…

Been a lot of monarchs in the neighborhood this week. I found one on the sunflowers in the backyard but the picture didn't turn out. So, of course, I had to draw it. :) #bloomscrolling #monarch

Ich schätze mal, das Pub The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire wird künftig zur Pilgerstätte.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny-forces-pub-to-turn-away-jd-vance/

Staff Mutiny Forces Pub to Turn Away JD Vance
The vice president had reportedly attempted to dine at The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, weeks after the venue hosted Kamala Harris.

MAD: A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Audio Dialogue Fact-Checking
Chaewan Chun, Lysandre Terrisse, Delvin Ce Zhang, Dongwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12186 https://

MAD: A Benchmark for Multi-Turn Audio Dialogue Fact-Checking
Despite the growing popularity of audio platforms, fact-checking spoken content remains significantly underdeveloped. Misinformation in speech often unfolds across multi-turn dialogues, shaped by speaker interactions, disfluencies, overlapping speech, and emotional tone-factors that complicate both claim detection and verification. Existing datasets fall short by focusing on isolated sentences or text transcripts, without modeling the conversational and acoustic complexity of spoken misinformat…

Trying to work but being distracted by
"dumb cops getting owned by $(insert profession here)"
videos for 2 hours now...
Pls someone turn off the internet for today so I can be productive.

The graph of public interest in Jimmy Kimmel's
#Wikipedia page since January 1 shows a few little bumps of interest and then a big BOOM.
Try it yourself: https://wikitwister.com/seismograph.html

Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue
Xingyao Lin, Xinghao Zhu, Tianyi Lu, Sicheng Xie, Hui Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15061

Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue
The ultimate goal of embodied agents is to create collaborators that can interact with humans, not mere executors that passively follow instructions. This requires agents to communicate, coordinate, and adapt their actions based on human feedback. Recently, advances in VLAs have offered a path toward this goal. However, most current VLA-based embodied agents operate in a one-way mode: they receive an instruction and execute it without feedback. This approach fails in real-world scenarios where …

Zero-sum turn games using Q-learning: finite computation with security guarantees
Sean Anderson, Chris Darken, Jo\~ao Hespanha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13585 https://

Zero-sum turn games using Q-learning: finite computation with security guarantees
This paper addresses zero-sum ``turn'' games, in which only one player can make decisions at each state. We show that pure saddle-point state-feedback policies for turn games can be constructed from dynamic programming fixed-point equations for a single value function or Q-function. These fixed-points can be constructed using a suitable form of Q-learning. For discounted costs, convergence of this form of Q-learning can be established using classical techniques. For undiscounted costs, we provi…

One thing I think the news reports are missing about the guy killed by an MRI machine while wearing a 9kg metal chain, is that you *can't* flip a switch and quickly turn off the magnetism, even in emergency situations. Shutting down is a slow involved process, and many MRI magnets are always active for their working life.

Cincy hopes benching gets Taylor-Britt 'to respond' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46629262/bengals-hoping-cam-taylor-britt-turn-page-benching

Eatman: Defense, that’s all you need to do https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/eatman-defense-that-s-all-you-need-to-do

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Com members doxx DHS and ICE employees,
--DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server,
--Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned,"
--Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit,
--MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption,
--Hackers st…

The Com members doxxed DHS and ICE workers
DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server, Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned," Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit, MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption, much more

Ukraine proposes $100 billion US weapons deal backed by European allies, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukraine-proposes-billion-us-weapons.html

Turn up the light: Radiative efficiency of protostars at birth
Asmita Bhandare, Adnan Ali Ahmad, Beno\^it Commer\c{c}on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15009 https://

Turn up the light: Radiative efficiency of protostars at birth
Early stages of stellar birth comprise of a two-step process involving the formation of two hydrostatic cores. The second step of gravitational collapse sets the radiative efficiency and accretion rate of the young protostar. These two parameters, of prime importance for protostellar evolution, dictate the luminosities and thus play a key role in deciphering the current discrepancy between observational surveys and theoretical models. In this letter, we provide quantitative estimates on the evo…

Those recurring, intrusive popups in Photoshop and Illustrator are driving me nuts tbh! You’re working and want to get stuff done quickly with a pro tool – but suddenly, your mind needs to process a “useful” tip about how to use the brush tool? WTF. 😂
I haven't found a way to turn them off other than turning off the contextual task bar completely…

ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction
Xingshan Zeng, Weiwen Liu, Lingzhi Wang, Liangyou Li, Fei Mi, Yasheng Wang, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12685

ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction
Agentic task-solving with Large Language Models (LLMs) requires multi-turn, multi-step interactions, often involving complex function calls and dynamic user-agent exchanges. Existing simulation-based data generation methods for such scenarios rely heavily on costly autoregressive interactions between multiple LLM agents, thereby limiting real-world performance of agentic tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel Non-Autoregressive Iterative Generation framework, called ToolACE-MT, for constructi…

Target's CEO is stepping down as customers turn away (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/20/business/target-stock-ceo-cornell
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p80#a250820p80

Research on Conversational Recommender System Considering Consumer Types
Yaying Luo, Hui Fang, Zhu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13209 https://arxiv.org/p…

Research on Conversational Recommender System Considering Consumer Types
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) provide personalized services through multi-turn interactions, yet most existing methods overlook users' heterogeneous decision-making styles and knowledge levels, which constrains both accuracy and efficiency. To address this gap, we propose CT-CRS (Consumer Type-Enhanced Conversational Recommender System), a framework that integrates consumer type modeling into dialogue recommendation. Based on consumer type theory, we define four user categories--depe…

Ooooh! The current Printables contest is for 3D printed bike gear!
#3Dprinting

Bike Gear | Contest theme | Printables.com
If you like to ride your bicycle, you know—there’s always something that could work better. This round is for 3D-printable parts and accessories that make cycling smoother, safer, or just more fun. Think mounts for lights or action cameras, bottle holders, custom tool clips, chain keepers, mudguards, storage solutions, or transport helpers. Or give your bike some personality with custom valve caps, spoke decorations, handlebar charms, or other small touches that turn it into the bike of you…

Adobe Acrobat on MacOS just had an update that silently turns-on AI clips.
You need to go into Preferences and turn off "Show AI video cards" (and it is good to turn off everything else as well.)
This is especially important (to turn off the Acrobat AI gunk for people with fiduciary and professional secrecy and privacy obligations - like doctors, attorneys, accountants, etc.)

»Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it:
Microsoft is rewriting Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to.«
How does that happen when everyone in the office is babbling with the PC and how should people then work eficiently concentrated? M$ powers do not serve us, but listen clearly and openly to what it is already doing now − switching now to Linux desktop!
👉

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Microsoft is bringing new AI features to all Windows 11 PCs. Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision are now rolling out to turn computers into AI PCs.

Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration
Shuting Du, Mohamed Ibrahim, Zishen Wan, Luqi Zheng, Boheng Zhao, Zhenkun Fan, Che-Kai Liu, Tushar Krishna, Arijit Raychowdhury, Haitong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14245

Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration
Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have been widely deployed in various cognitive applications due to their simple and efficient operations. The widespread adoption of VSAs has, in turn, spurred the development of numerous hardware solutions aimed at optimizing their performance. Despite these advancements, a comprehensive and unified discourse on the convergence of hardware and algorithms in the context of VSAs remains somewhat limited. The paper aims to bridge the gap between theoretical so…

No Taxation Without Representation. No Kings.
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/blue-states-fight-back-against-trump

It's awesome watching a world class speed metal drummer do what they do. And this new song by Megadeth really scratches the itch @… https://…

Me and my new #yubikey5 part 2:
Now we get to the nitty-gritty parts. I'm using #mbsync to sync multiple #imap accounts to local

TIL that in Dwarf Fortress you can make working gear assemblies that are impassable by creatures.
1. Submerge them in lava
2.. Dump water on the lava to turn it into obsidian
3. Dig away what you don't need.
As long as the gear assemblies are made of magma-safe materials, obviously.
Been playing the game 10 years and never knew that.

Pentagon Reporters Should Turn In Their Badges https://thedissenter.org/pentagon-reporters-should-turn-in-their-badges/

Titan submarine: Also in the same ntsb set of documents are a) The interview with the Softee who worked on some of the software, (describing Jira and Git to marine investigators..), and replugging the Logitech joystick dongle, and who had also got into screwing the end cap of the sub on and torquing the bolts up (!).
and b) The details of the recovery of the images off the camera - which turn out to be useless - but involved some fun with Luks, and a Qualcomm SoM.

In a remarkable turn from prominent American conservatives,
-- who until Trump’s return to power in January had long complained of a censorious leftwing “cancel culture”
-- now seem happy to reframe that, too, as “consequence culture”.
Nancy Mace, a House representative, sounded a lot like the progressives she has often decried for their political correctness when she declaredlast week, during an effort to censure one of her opponents in Congress, that “free speech isn’t f…

🕶️ Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyperscape-technology-to-turn-real-world-spaces-into-vr/

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR | TechCrunch
Quest device owners will be able to scan a room in a few minutes, then turn it into an immersive and photorealistic world that's like a digital replica of a real-world space.

Forget about my naysaying about being able to quote posts...
It's actually great!
I guess I'll turn it on!
My (#)MastodonSuperShield will still be effective with anyone not in my approved list won't spam my notifications...
#QuotePosts #Whitelist

Testing the Origin of Hot Jupiters with Ariel
Lina D'Aoust, Ben Coull-Neveu, Eve J. Lee, Nicolas B. Cowan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13446 https://

Testing the Origin of Hot Jupiters with Ariel
In spite of their long detection history, the origin of hot Jupiters remains to be resolved. While multiple dynamical evidence suggests high-eccentricity migration is most likely, conflicts remain when considering hot Jupiters as a population in the context of warm and cold Jupiters. Here, we turn to atmospheric signatures as an alternative mean to test the origin theory of hot Jupiters, focusing on population level trends that arise from post-formation pollution, motivated by the upcoming Arie…

'Turn the screws': Abuse between Epstein and his biggest financial backer revealed - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black/

MedKGEval: A Knowledge Graph-Based Multi-Turn Evaluation Framework for Open-Ended Patient Interactions with Clinical LLMs
Yuechun Yu, Han Ying, Haoan Jin, Wenjian Jiang, Dong Xian, Binghao Wang, Zhou Yang, Mengyue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12224

MedKGEval: A Knowledge Graph-Based Multi-Turn Evaluation Framework for Open-Ended Patient Interactions with Clinical LLMs
The reliable evaluation of large language models (LLMs) in medical applications remains an open challenge, particularly in capturing the complexity of multi-turn doctor-patient interactions that unfold in real clinical environments. Existing evaluation methods typically rely on post hoc review of full conversation transcripts, thereby neglecting the dynamic, context-sensitive nature of medical dialogues and the evolving informational needs of patients. In this work, we present MedKGEval, a nove…

Oh hell no! If they allow it at work I will be asking how I can turn it off. There are times when we cannot record or use transcriptions for parts of meetings.
https://www.theverge.com/news/781278/microsoft-teams-copilot-ai-agents

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
🧘‍♂️
https://ca…

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

I mean, there’s tons of people talking here about all the shit that’s going down in the world. Sometimes you just need a break from it. Ideally, you’d put down your phone, or tablet, or turn away from your desk, and go do something, something outdoors, maybe. But some of you can’t do that, for reasons, so that’s where the shitposters come in. At least, if you can’t get away entirely, go look at something stupid or amusing or interesting for a bit. Get that blood pressure down, ffs.

Free electron charging of microdroplets in a plasma at atmospheric pressure
Nourhan Hendawy, Harold McQuaid, Somhairle Mag Uidhir, David Rutherford, Declan Diver, Davide Mariotti, Paul Maguire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13372

Free electron charging of microdroplets in a plasma at atmospheric pressure
Gas phase microdroplets have recently demonstrated exceptional chemical properties via suspected mechanisms such as contact electrification and surface charge pinning leading, in turn, to high electric fields at the surface. In this work, microdroplets are injected into a low temperature flowing gas plasma at atmospheric pressure and during flight they are subject to an excess free electron flux. We report the first measurements of particle charge acquired in a fully collisional plasma with ave…

Sources: OpenAI plans to spend ~$100B on backup servers from cloud providers through 2030, in addition to the $350B already projected for server rentals (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-spend-100-bil…

OpenAI to Spend $100 Billion on Backup Servers for AI Breakthroughs
When OpenAI in March released ChatGPT features that could turn photos into animated characters, a spike in usage forced the company to put temporary limits on the features. It wasn’t the first time this had happened. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told investors at a Goldman Sachs ...

Mozilla: We don’t understand why you’re all upset, you can turn off the new Shit In My Mouth feature if you don’t like it.

sometimes I get annoyed when I forget to turn off match updates on FotMob for a match I'm watching bc it'll tell me someone scored before it actually happens on my stream
but rn it was good bc I was not fucking paying attention and that gave me a few seconds to focus and actually watch the goal lol
#fedifc #psv

sci pol; NZ pol
ICYMI Another handbrake turn in research management, this time Aotearoa New Zealand under Christopher Luxon's National party coalition.
"New Zealand’s largest source of funding through competitive grants, the Endeavour Fund, remains stagnant at NZ$245 million but has *canceled all applications for the 2026 funding round to “reduce the operational burden of applying for funding”* during the mergers of Crown Research Institutes."
➡️ #NZ #researchfunding #SciPol

The Sum Leaks More Than Its Parts: Compositional Privacy Risks and Mitigations in Multi-Agent Collaboration
Vaidehi Patil, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14284

The Sum Leaks More Than Its Parts: Compositional Privacy Risks and Mitigations in Multi-Agent Collaboration
As large language models (LLMs) become integral to multi-agent systems, new privacy risks emerge that extend beyond memorization, direct inference, or single-turn evaluations. In particular, seemingly innocuous responses, when composed across interactions, can cumulatively enable adversaries to recover sensitive information, a phenomenon we term compositional privacy leakage. We present the first systematic study of such compositional privacy leaks and possible mitigation methods in multi-agent…

Eatman: Defense, that’s all you need to do https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/eatman-defense-that-s-all-you-need-to-do

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
Cella M. Sum, Anna Konvicka, Mona Wang, Sarah E. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12579

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Rodriguez Jr. & Stereo MC's:
🎵 Turn The Light On
#NowPlaying #RodriguezJr #StereoMCs
https://mobileerecords.bandcamp.com/track/turn-the-light-on-feat-stereo-mcs
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gEXAZEFJ9Wf1tGJIyGBdT

Broncos turn a 2024 seventh-round pick into future fourth-rounder? Grading the Devaughn Vele trade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45393465/2025-nfl-offseason-trade-grades-latest-best-worst-deals

For the past three weeks, I’ve been attending protests at the Broadview ICE facility.
There’s been a vigil there for almost two decades at this point, but they started ramping up after three protesters were arrested four weeks ago.
Three weeks ago, we went, and it was very peaceful.
We ended up actually getting a car to turn around.
Last week, when we went, ICE assaulted a lot of us.
We went early because they changed their deportation time to around 6 a.m.

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

The impact of rotational mixing in intermediate-age star clusters with extended main-sequence turn-offs and extended red clumps
Lorenzo Martinelli, Andrea Miglio, Ga\"el Buldgen, Hannah Schunker, Cyril Georgy, Giacomo Cordoni, Karsten Brogaard, Patrick Eggenberger, Eoin Farrell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13601

The impact of rotational mixing in intermediate-age star clusters with extended main-sequence turn-offs and extended red clumps
The extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) and extended red clumps (eRCs) observed in intermediate-age star clusters challenge the traditional understanding of clusters as simple stellar populations. Recently, eMSTOs have been interpreted as signatures of stellar rotation. In this work, we test the effectiveness of rotational mixing in shaping the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of star clusters. We computed a set of separate single-age synthetic stellar populations, referred to as "Base Stell…

So this Monday I made an expedition to Monkey Run; there are two sections that are inaccessible by walking trails so I got a new pair of water shoes to attempt traversal of the first section
#photo #photography

Jets bench ineffective QB Fields, turn to Taylor https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46650287/jets-bench-ineffective-justin-fields-favor-tyrod-taylor

If you've been paying attention, this is a *very* strong signal that OpenAI is hitting the limits of improved capability with more compute/data and they're (predictably) all out of other ideas. The quiet "exponential model capabilities" lie here is what Altmann promised but is now starting not to be able to deliver, even in cherry-picked demo terms.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-altman-says-agi-is-a-pointless-term-experts-agree.html
The "agentic" turn was never going to pan out, because it exposes the unreliability of LLMs too directly, and it turns out that no amount of yelling at your text vending machine to "Be smarter! Think harder!" will actually get you anything more than vended text.
I'm *praying* that we get into this crash sooner rather than later, since the faster it comes, the less painful it will be.
My recent reading in actual research papers corroborates this, for example, asking LLMs to play games exposes their utter lack of anything that can be termed "reasoning":
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08501v1

Expel Intel transforms industry noise into actionable defense, partners with renowned security researcher Marcus Hutchins to amplify capabilities
https://expel.com/resource/expel-accelerates-threat-intelligence-program-to-turn-signal-into-s…

Expel accelerates threat intelligence program to turn signal into shield | Expel
Expel Intel transforms industry noise into actionable defense, partners with renowned security researcher Marcus Hutchins to amplify capabilities

Shallow Robustness, Deep Vulnerabilities: Multi-Turn Evaluation of Medical LLMs
Blazej Manczak, Eric Lin, Francisco Eiras, James O' Neill, Vaikkunth Mugunthan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12255

Shallow Robustness, Deep Vulnerabilities: Multi-Turn Evaluation of Medical LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transitioning into medical clinical use, yet their reliability under realistic, multi-turn interactions remains poorly understood. Existing evaluation frameworks typically assess single-turn question answering under idealized conditions, overlooking the complexities of medical consultations where conflicting input, misleading context, and authority influence are common. We introduce MedQA-Followup, a framework for systematically evaluating multi-turn rob…

'Breaking point': Distrustful conservative judges turn up the heat on Trump lawyers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judges-2674210696/

Staff Mutiny Forces Pub to Turn Away JD Vance (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny-forces-pub-to-turn-away-jd-vance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p119#a250814p119

Does Silksong Seem Unreasonably Hard? You Probably Took a Wrong Turn https://www.404media.co/does-silksong-seem-unreasonably-hard-you-probably-took-a-wrong-turn/

Ranking the best NFL teams to watch: Turn your TV to the Commanders, Ravens and ... Falcons? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46029185/2025-nfl-season-most-watchable-teams-ranking-commanders-ravens-lions

"The GOP is now brazenly lying about the breadth and popularity of the No Kings movement, and the fact that the millions who will turn out are Americans citizens and residents who oppose authoritarian, fascist policies and officials and want to save our democracy and the rule of law. They are scared, and we are getting to them."

The Resistance Finds Its Footing
Five reasons to smile and cheer in these difficult and troubling times

self esteem issues are the mind-killer. self esteem issues are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my self esteem issues. I will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see their path. where the self esteem issues have gone there will be nothing. only I will remain. and hopefully i'll be cute

The upstream section of monkey run is filled with this kind of yellow daisy flower which my wife said is "either a true or a false sunflower" which I guess means 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠
#photo #photography #monkeyrun

SafeMT: Multi-turn Safety for Multimodal Language Models
Han Zhu, Juntao Dai, Jiaming Ji, Haoran Li, Chengkun Cai, Pengcheng Wen, Chi-Min Chan, Boyuan Chen, Yaodong Yang, Sirui Han, Yike Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12133

SafeMT: Multi-turn Safety for Multimodal Language Models
With the widespread use of multi-modal Large Language models (MLLMs), safety issues have become a growing concern. Multi-turn dialogues, which are more common in everyday interactions, pose a greater risk than single prompts; however, existing benchmarks do not adequately consider this situation. To encourage the community to focus on the safety issues of these models in multi-turn dialogues, we introduce SafeMT, a benchmark that features dialogues of varying lengths generated from harmful quer…

Trump declined to approve more than $400 million in military aid to Taiwan this summer,
as he tries to negotiate a trade deal and potential summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The decision, which may still be reversed, marks a U-turn in U.S. policy toward the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.

Two people familiar with the matter said the package was worth more than $400 million and would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

🦎 City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social
#lizards

City lizards turn out to be surprisingly social
Streets, walls, concrete—cities may seem like a harsh environment. Yet some animals adapt remarkably well. A new study published in Biology Letters from Bielefeld University shows that common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) behave far more socially in urban areas than in the countryside.

Pragmatic Frames Evoked by Gestures: A FrameNet Brasil Approach to Multimodality in Turn Organization
Helen de Andrade Abreu, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09804

Pragmatic Frames Evoked by Gestures: A FrameNet Brasil Approach to Multimodality in Turn Organization
This paper proposes a framework for modeling multimodal conversational turn organization via the proposition of correlations between language and interactive gestures, based on analysis as to how pragmatic frames are conceptualized and evoked by communicators. As a means to provide evidence for the analysis, we developed an annotation methodology to enrich a multimodal dataset (annotated for semantic frames) with pragmatic frames modeling conversational turn organization. Although conversationa…

Russell Wilson landing spots: Where could veteran QB be dealt after Giants turn to Jaxson Dart as starter?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/russell…

X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S: Automated Discovery of Multi-turn to Single-turn Jailbreak Templates
Hyunjun Kim, Junwoo Ha, Sangyoon Yu, Haon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08729 …

X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S: Automated Discovery of Multi-turn to Single-turn Jailbreak Templates
Multi-turn-to-single-turn (M2S) compresses iterative red-teaming into one structured prompt, but prior work relied on a handful of manually written templates. We present X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S, an automated framework that discovers and optimizes M2S templates through language-model-guided evolution. The system pairs smart sampling from 12 sources with an LLM-as-judge inspired by StrongREJECT and records fully auditable logs. Maintaining selection pressure by setting the success threshold …

💩 A more climate-friendly way to produce nitrogen fertilizer
#chemistry

A more climate-friendly way to produce nitrogen fertilizer
Humanity has an insatiable appetite for ammonia: This substance is used to make fertilizer, which in turn is used in most modern agriculture. Until now, the Haber-Bosch process has been the method of choice for extracting nitrogen from the seemingly inexhaustible atmosphere and binding it in the form of ammonia. However, this method requires an extremely large amount of methane gas and energy.

49ers turn to Mac Jones at QB, years after weighing him with the No. 3 pick

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-turn-to-mac-jones-at-qb-years-after-wei…

San Bruno police pull over a Waymo for an illegal turn
but no ticket was issued, as
'our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/29/waymo-illegal-u-turn-driverle…

Chat-Driven Text Generation and Interaction for Person Retrieval
Zequn Xie, Chuxin Wang, Sihang Cai, Yeqiang Wang, Shulei Wang, Tao Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12662 https://…

Chat-Driven Text Generation and Interaction for Person Retrieval
Text-based person search (TBPS) enables the retrieval of person images from large-scale databases using natural language descriptions, offering critical value in surveillance applications. However, a major challenge lies in the labor-intensive process of obtaining high-quality textual annotations, which limits scalability and practical deployment. To address this, we introduce two complementary modules: Multi-Turn Text Generation (MTG) and Multi-Turn Text Interaction (MTI). MTG generates rich p…

Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and the Dolphins offense looked lost in a Week 1 blowout. Can they turn it around?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tua-tag…