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"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️‍🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/

"The American parents who are choosing to skip or delay vaccines for their children are more likely to home-school their children, be White and very religious, identify as Republican or be under 35"
POLL: 1 In 6 Parents Aren't Vaccinating Their Kids - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/poll-1-in-6-parents-arent-vaccinating-their-kids/

Several good health related articles here today:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/viewpoint-we-owe-parents-real-data-we-mess-kids-vaccination-schedule

Huh?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-orders-deletion-federal-workers-vaccination-records/407334/

OPM orders deletion of federal workers’ vaccination records
The announcement came hours after a formal dissolution of a lawsuit challenging the Biden-era requirement that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, which hasn’t been enforced since 2023.

Sometimes you get data in less than optimal format, e.g. as a png of a figure 😭... In that case https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metaDigitise/vignettes/metaDigitise.html might be the rescue.

Fast Visuomotor Policy for Robotic Manipulation
Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang, Xueyao Chen, Chenhuan Liu, Wenqiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12483 https://…

Fast Visuomotor Policy for Robotic Manipulation
We present a fast and effective policy framework for robotic manipulation, named Energy Policy, designed for high-frequency robotic tasks and resource-constrained systems. Unlike existing robotic policies, Energy Policy natively predicts multimodal actions in a single forward pass, enabling high-precision manipulation at high speed. The framework is built upon two core components. First, we adopt the energy score as the learning objective to facilitate multimodal action modeling. Second, we int…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Vox Mod:
🎵 Iridescent Asteroid Mists
#VoxMod
https://voxmod.bandcamp.com/track/iridescent-asteroid-mists-feat-palaceer-lazaro
https://open.spotify.com/track/55TfRu4fTAqUb1W2xaU7BJ

Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine effective against world's deadliest infectious disease - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/tuberculosis-vaccination-via-lungs-may-be-more-effective/105535198

Grey-body factors and absorption cross-sections of scalar and Dirac fields in the vicinity of dilaton-de Sitter black hole
Bekir Can L\"utf\"uo\u{g}lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10579

Grey-body factors and absorption cross-sections of scalar and Dirac fields in the vicinity of dilaton-de Sitter black hole
We investigate the propagation of a massive scalar field and a massless Dirac field in the geometry of a dilaton--de Sitter black hole. Starting from the covariant perturbation equations, we derive the corresponding effective potentials and analyze their dependence on the dilaton charge, field mass, and cosmological constant. Using the WKB approximation, we compute the grey-body factors and study the associated absorption cross-sections. The results show that increasing the field mass or dilato…

Why Report Failed Interactions With Robots?! Towards Vignette-based Interaction Quality
Agnes Axelsson, Merle Reimann, Ronald Cumbal, Hannah Pelikan, Divesh Lala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10603

Why Report Failed Interactions With Robots?! Towards Vignette-based Interaction Quality
Although the quality of human-robot interactions has improved with the advent of LLMs, there are still various factors that cause systems to be sub-optimal when compared to human-human interactions. The nature and criticality of failures are often dependent on the context of the interaction and so cannot be generalized across the wide range of scenarios and experiments which have been implemented in HRI research. In this work we propose the use of a technique overlooked in the field of HRI, eth…