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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Staves:
🎵 Winter Trees
#TheStaves
https://thestaves.bandcamp.com/track/winter-trees
https://open.spotify.com/track/29cjJmloO5C0t6Ak3bNLTv

Teaching RL Agents to Act Better: VLM as Action Advisor for Online Reinforcement Learning
Xiefeng Wu, Jing Zhao, Shu Zhang, Mingyu Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21126 https://…

Teaching RL Agents to Act Better: VLM as Action Advisor for Online Reinforcement Learning
Online reinforcement learning in complex tasks is time-consuming, as massive interaction steps are needed to learn the optimal Q-function.Vision-language action (VLA) policies represent a promising direction for solving diverse tasks; however, their performance on low-level control remains limited, and effective deployment often requires task-specific expert demonstrations for fine-tuning. In this paper, we propose \textbf{VARL} (\textbf{V}LM as \textbf{A}ction advisor for online \textbf{R}einf…

House Judiciary's Jamie Raskin is echoing Jack Smith's demand for public hearings:
"I am now calling on you to accept Mr. Smith's offer to testify at a public hearing
so the American people can all hear directly from him on the matters we will be questioning him about."
https://

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social)
NEW: House Judiciary's Jamie Raskin is echoing Jack Smith's demand for public hearings: "I am now calling on you to accept Mr. Smith's offer to testify at a public hearing so the American people can all hear directly from him on the matters we will be questioning him about." tinyurl.com/yrmrdr3t [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Massachusetts could soon join 40 other jurisdictions with its own climate bank. Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber testified on Beacon Hill for legislation that would blend public and private investments to fund low-interest loans for clean energy projects.
The model works: similar banks invested $10.6B in 2023 alone. Lubber urged prioritizing environmental justice communities alongside rural and coastal areas.

Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber testifies on Beacon Hill to support the creation of a climate bank in Massachusetts

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Staple Singers:
🎵 Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas
#TheStapleSingers
https://thestaplesingers.bandcamp.com/track/who-took-the-merry-out-of-christmas
https://open.spotify.com/track/41U86awdgg7CKQUA4twR68

Größtes Elektroschiff der Welt geht erstmals in Betrieb
Die australische Werft Incap hat das größte Elektroschiff der Welt fertiggestellt. Jetzt startet das Testprogramm.
https://www.…

Jack Smith asks Congress and the Justice Department to allow him to testify publicly (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/jack-smith-asks-to-testify-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p152#a251023p152

The illusion that Europe had better democratic processes and laws was shattered by their unequivocal support of the genocide in Palestine.
I used to nod vigorously when a righteous European politician made progressive statements. But it turns out, it was just the tool they reached out for to advance their crass goals.
An inch more tasteful than Trump, but Trumpian at their core.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
45th St Brass:
🎵 Love On Top
#45thStBrass
https://45thstbrass.bandcamp.com/track/love-on-top
https://open.spotify.com/track/1t5grQZ6Z8FmhS68MB9Dvv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Half Pint:
🎵 Greetings
#HalfPint
https://taxitabou1.bandcamp.com/track/greetings-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/3h1LmVEqeHz4vEqUzVceo7