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Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story. 
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue. 
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now. 

Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota | Democrat for U.S. Senate
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan's ready to take our Minnesota values to D.C. — to fight to rebuild the middle class, protect our rights, and hold the extremist billionaires trying to run off with our country accountable. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Will you join us in this Minnesotan-powered campaign?

On empty return values. #PHP
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/empty-return-values

Draft Chinese AI Rules Outline ‘Core Socialist Values’ for AI Human Personality Simulators
https://gizmodo.com/draft-chinese-ai-rules-outline-core-socialist-values-for-ai-human-personality-simulators-2000703772

#TIL
> The macros describing this structure live in <asm/ioctl.h> and are
> _IO(type,nr) and {_IOR,_IOW,_IOWR}(type,nr,size). They use
> sizeof(size) so that size is a misnomer here: this third argument
> is a data type.
>
> Note that the size bits are very unreliable: in lots of cases they
> are wrong, either because of buggy macros using
> sizeof(sizeof(struct)), or because of legacy values.
#Linux

🚙 An RV park in this neighborhood? Not without a fight
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-01/an-rv-park-in-this-neighborhood-not-without-a-fight

An RV park in this neighborhood? Not without a fight
Residents in Harbor City are fighting against a proposed RV park that they believe could bring crime and lower property values.

Sources: Temasek is in talks to buy a ~5% stake in Quest Global, in a deal that values the engineering services company at $4.6B in the lead-up to its India IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-28/t…

what the fuck does this diagram mean
what does it mean for two 128-bit values to "converge together"
edit: oh i guess they aren't 128-bit. but this isn't helping much
edit2: ohhh, they're making it possible to get less than 128 bits out in the last ciphertext block

Every day I look at the Vitals widget, and read it with a dismissive/disgusted voice. “Typical.”

Wow, Apple's issues with one of their most important core values (#UX, #UI design) does seem to be worse than I'd have expected.
More and more complaints do pop up in my bubble.
Latest example:

Your actions show what your values are, not feel-good bullet points on a website.
Bravo, Python Software Foundation.
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659195456270

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

All I want is a new Cookie attribute added to the spec, so that when a website tries to set a cookie, along with the name and expiry date and domain and httponly flags, there is a "type".
Valid values for type are "preference", "storage", "login", "session", "analytics", "tracking" and "evil".

When the Blues Hit Home: Why Family Values Require Family Wages | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/10/26/when-the-blues-hit-home-why-family-values-require-family-wages/

Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/-blackrock-link…

BlackRock-linked tokenization firm Securitize to go public via SPAC deal
Founded in 2017, Securitize filed on Tuesday to go public through a SPAC deal that values its business at $1.25 billion.

Without mentioning any consideration of the damages the current #genAI tools are having on our societies and democracies? Sigh.
Also, this does not address the underlying issues of the way that the current #ResearchAssessment and funding is driven by neoliberal values. Something of which these blogposts also reek off..
3/3

> Consumer-protection organisations call for tighter rules, while online platforms such as Tik ToK argue that there is only a very limited need for further regulatory intervention.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative

pet peeve: "good intentions".
if the intentions consistently cause bad things, then they just aren't very good. yeah, it's based on bad reasoning/understanding. it always is, that's how evil happens.
how else are these intentions supposed to be "good"? by making people feel good about themselves?
even people who think they "do evil on purpose" are just semantically confused. they still act according to their own values. though their…

light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
— by @…
🖌️ https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learne

light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
`light-dark()` and `prefers-color-scheme` treat the defined `color-scheme` values differently.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115415146417702654
After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.
So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @…

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Of course we do.
VILA: Old friend.
VILA: Oh, uh, [Atlan grabs the front of his tunic] way back.
DAYNA: We were students of the doctor once.
ATLAN: Studying what?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/343 B7B5

Someone has encouraged me to engage in party politics by joining a political party. However, I oppose it, because political parties often represent interests that conflict with my own values and belief system.
Rather than aligning myself with parties that promote agendas incompatible with my views, I want to organiz my local community, prioritizing grassroots involvement and direct democratic participation over representative party politics.
As a syndicalist, I firmly believe tha…

“Alliances are built on common values and a common threat perception,”
said Danish Defense Analyst Jacob Kaarsbo
“Trump shares neither of those with us
and I would argue he doesn’t share it with most Europeans.”
https://www.

Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism

My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.

🪧 When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
#politics

Arriving at Act I, The Alters is quite engaging. It's a video game, in case you are reaching for your favourite search engine. So far, the sci-fi aspect has that structured feeling of the Eastern European/Soviet branch of the genre, mixed up with the post-Soviet era shift of values and cultural trends -- still kind of bland, but looking at the Western guilty thrill of the dystopian. It's a damn good, well-made game. I hope it holds up in that way until the end.

On the $v$-adic values of G-functions II
Georgios Papas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11814 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11814

On the $v$-adic values of G-functions II
This is the second in a series of papers by the author centered around the study of values of G-functions associated to $1$-parameter families of abelian varieties $f:\CX\rightarrow S$ and a point $s_0\in S(K)$ with smooth fiber over some number field $K$. Here we study the case where $f:\CX\rightarrow S$ is a family of elliptic curves. We construct relations among the values of G-functions in this setting at points whose fiber is a CM elliptic curve. These lead to bounds for the height of su…

🎜 The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades 🎝 - Timbuk 3
Core Values: Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-altman-plutonium-oklo

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Floods have devalued Australian homes by $42bn. Experts say that’s the cost of ‘a changing climate’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/22/floods-have-devalued-australian-homes-by-…

It feels so good to support a new manager in navigating management challenges and hard conversations, to hear their ideas and goals and values, and to show them how they can affirm their values in their management practices
I'm so glad to be able to help someone go from self-awareness of how they might fall into classic bad management traps, to building their toolkit of actions and techniques they can use to counter their tendencies and instead balance empathetic and accountable le…

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 📌
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 📌
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Indiana May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values” https://share.google/YRcaOXnvCKLQa8IoV

Ind. May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values”
Indiana may reject proposed degree programs at public institutions that don’t “cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values of American society.” Earlier this month, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education introduced a question on “civic responsibility and commitment” in its new degree proposal form,

Do you like repeatedly measuring things and typing values? OpenSCAD might be for you!

"Declining property values and home prices are understood as a sign of impending doom, rather than a cause for celebration, and so the system aims to keep prices on an upward slope."
Housing can't be a good investment and affordable
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamd

Zohran Mamdani Vs. the Real Estate State
Can the mayor-elect overcome the snares being set for his affordable housing agenda?

/2
In the last part of the video some figures that might draw some attention.
The Israel arms imports from the UK
Very different from earlier years.
From:
Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values – Channel 4 News
#Israel #Gaza #UK

A10 - Breakdown
AVON: It's a space laboratory. A permanent research facility financed by a consortium of neutral planets. Two specialist fields: weaponry and space medicine. An interesting combination, don't you think?
JENNA: How do you know all this?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/113…

"Greener banking in Australia: how to put your money where your values are"
#Australia #Finance #Money

Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law. Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

M\"obius transforms and Shapley values for vector-valued functions on weighted directed acyclic multigraphs
Patrick Forr\'e, Abel Jansma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05786

Möbius transforms and Shapley values for vector-valued functions on weighted directed acyclic multigraphs
We generalize the concept of Möbius inversion and Shapley values to directed acyclic multigraphs and weighted versions thereof. We further allow value functions (games) and thus their Möbius transforms (synergy function) and Shapley values to have values in any abelian group that is a module over a ring that contains the graph weights, e.g. vector-valued functions. To achieve this and overcome the obstruction that the classical axioms (linearity, efficiency, null player, symmetry) are not str…

Guess who Alec Baldwin had on his podcast.
Listen to the episode and hear YDS student Andrea Barton Reeves '26 M.A.R. discuss her work ensuring accessibility to services and support for thousands of Connecticut residents, and how she remains grounded in her values of transparency, integrity, and service to others. #WeAreCalled

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves on Connecticut’s Future
Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 10/21/2025 · 43m

"democratic values, in the reality that the United States has walked away from them … what should the allies do?"
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

Language Models Do Not Embed Numbers Continuously
Alex O. Davies, Roussel Nzoyem, Nirav Ajmeri, Telmo M. Silva Filho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08009 https://

Language Models Do Not Embed Numbers Continuously
Recent research has extensively studied how large language models manipulate integers in specific arithmetic tasks, and on a more fundamental level, how they represent numeric values. These previous works have found that language model embeddings can be used to reconstruct the original values, however, they do not evaluate whether language models actually model continuous values as continuous. Using expected properties of the embedding space, including linear reconstruction and principal compon…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127143/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

Sharing some thoughts about the complexities of living in alignment with your values! https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-gift-of-contradiction?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShar…

The Gift of Contradiction
How embracing our messy tensions can widen movements and deepen integrity. You can care deeply about climate and still live with contradiction. Perfection isn’t integrity. What matters is the direction of your compass.

A Climate 'Shock' Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/19/climate/home-insurance-costs-real-estate-market.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p99#a251119p99

values of β will give rise to dom!

giving side-eye to certain tech executives for giving ketamine a bad name
look. it's not the ketamine. it's their values and beliefs doing that

Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Milan Hlad\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04604 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Absolute value linear programming problems is quite a new area of optimization problems, involving linear functions and absolute values in the description of the model. In this paper, we consider interval uncertainty of the input coefficients. Our goal is to determine the best and the worst case optimal values. For the former, we derive an explicit formula, reducing the problem to a certain optimization problem. However, the latter is more complicated, and we propose a lower and upper bound app…

Another big jump in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the October average was ~425.0 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year.
"US government is closed; site not updated", so we'll have to rely on the automated data collection for now.

New nickle release today. This adds complex numbers, adds more math functions and fixes some existing ones. I'm using all of this to generate test vectors for picolibc math functions. More news about that when I manage to get the tests through CI.
Here's the nickle bits:
https://github.com/keith-…

This is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

This is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

I will say this for Apple’s Vitals - I got an alert about elevated values yesterday morning, and felt fine so ignored it. By late afternoon I was ill and bedridden.

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-sales-fraud-investigation-firin…

Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

On the $v$-adic values of G-functions I
Georgios Papas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11806 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11806

On the $v$-adic values of G-functions I
This is the first in a series of papers aimed at studying families of G-functions associated to $1$-parameter families of abelian schemes. In particular, the construction of relations, in both the archimedean and non-archimedean settings, at values of specific interest to problems of unlikely intersections. In this first text in this series, we record what we expect to be the theoretical foundations of this series in a uniform way. After this, we study values corresponding to ``splittings'' i…

Ana Tudor rolling into the comments with corrections and useful #CSS values context (trousers!):
https://css-tricks.com/headings-semantics-fluidity-and-styling-oh-my/#…

Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! | CSS-Tricks
A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat.

PCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.

Elizabeth Warren here — Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan told me I could reach out, because this is important. 
Peggy is the partner I need to get things done in the Senate,
that’s why I have officially endorsed her campaign.
I know she will be a champion for Minnesotans in Congress. 
Can you please pitch in $5 or anything you can to help power her campaign?
I’ll explain more below about why this is such a critical race.

Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota | Democrat for U.S. Senate
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan's ready to take our Minnesota values to D.C. — to fight to rebuild the middle class, protect our rights, and hold the extremist billionaires trying to run off with our country accountable. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Will you join us in this Minnesotan-powered campaign?

Analyzing the Effect of Embedding Norms and Singular Values to Oversmoothing in Graph Neural Networks
Dimitrios Kelesis, Dimitris Fotakis, Georgios Paliouras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06066

Analyzing the Effect of Embedding Norms and Singular Values to Oversmoothing in Graph Neural Networks
In this paper, we study the factors that contribute to the effect of oversmoothing in deep Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Specifically, our analysis is based on a new metric (Mean Average Squared Distance - $MASED$) to quantify the extent of oversmoothing. We derive layer-wise bounds on $MASED$, which aggregate to yield global upper and lower distance bounds. Based on this quantification of oversmoothing, we further analyze the importance of two different properties of the model; namely the norm…

Search-based Hyperparameter Tuning for Python Unit Test Generation
Stephan Lukasczyk, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08716 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Search-based Hyperparameter Tuning for Python Unit Test Generation
Search-based test-generation algorithms have countless configuration options. Users rarely adjust these options and usually stick to the default values, which may not lead to the best possible results. Tuning an algorithm's hyperparameters is a method to find better hyperparameter values, but it typically comes with a high demand of resources. Meta-heuristic search algorithms -- that effectively solve the test-generation problem -- have been proposed as a solution to also efficiently tune param…

"what does the Kremlin brand as “traditional values”? While Putin denounces Western modernity as a moral threat, Russia itself contradicts its supposed ideals: children are abducted from occupied territories of Ukraine, domestic violence is normalized, religious minorities are persecuted, and soldiers’ lives are deemed expendable."
The Ugly Truth Behind the “Traditional Values” Russia Sells — UNITED24 Media [from October]
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-traditional-values-russia-sells-11690

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

@… Congratulations! I’m proud to call you my fellow American as well.
My Polish family taught me many of the same lessons and values.

Trump allowed Israel to almost completely destroy Gaza, kill tens of thousands innocent civilians, now we should praise him for making "peace" on the rubble that is left. Meanwhile in his own country, democracy and the rule of law are in fast decline. The breakdown of the values the USA once stood for is almost complete. Next will be the further destruction of US economy and society, it will not be a pretty sight I am afraid.

Evaluating the Raiders’ Top 5 Trade Assets and Their Market Value https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/top-5-trade-assets-projected-market-value/?adt_ei=[email]

I’m slightly feverish (I’m sure that’s the reason) to announce stamina 25.2.0! Among others, it allows `on` hooks to return custom back-off values (think: Retry-After headers!) and adds support for retrying generators (both sync and async):
https://github.com/hynek/stamina/releases/tag/…

Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.

#sqlite key value in 3 lines of sql

"What Mozilla leadership has continually demonstrated for the last several years is that they not only fail to understand the values of those who believe in and use the product, but they also have no intention of figuring out a non-parasitic financial basis for the organization to operate."
https://blo…

“When society’s values are corrupted, it is the duty of the individual to uphold true morality.”
Kaminski MD, Rami. The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners (p. 197). Kindle Edition.

🎨 How art reveals the values that sustain lasting peace
#art …

How art reveals the values that sustain lasting peace
Peace emerges from everyday cooperation, shared values and harmony with nature, not just decisions made by rulers.

CFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127238/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised $35M for his new global exchange AX, which offers perpetual futures, a source says at a $187M valuation (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/former-ftx-head-raises-…

Former FTX US Head Raises $35 Million for New Exchange
Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange. The round, led by Miami International and Tioga Capital, values the company at $187 million, according to a person familiar with the fundraising. The exchange, AX, offers perpetual futures on traditional assets such as stocks

Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: Based on daily values, the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's around 2.7 ppm higher than last year!
#ClimateChange #CO2 #emissions

Added 'a few' math tests to picolibc today. These create reference values using nickle with its arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic. The result is a list of functions which need work to improve their accuracy. Most are "close", with known errors of 1 or 2 ulp, but tgamma is in rough shape with errors of 56 ulp for binary64 and 97ulp for binary128. The complex functions are almost all in very rough shape with errors of thousands of ulps.

Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …

This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’
The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

It's time for ✨Decal Patterns✨
Reference from Apache ECharts https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/best-practices/aria/#decal-patterns — Github issue here

Periods detecting Eisenstein series and sums of $L$-values I
Weixiao Lu, Guodong Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12446 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12446

Periods detecting Eisenstein series and sums of $L$-values I
We study the automorphic period associated to a $G$-Hamiltonian variety $M$ whose dual is $\check{M} = T^*(\check{G}/\check{L})$, where $\check{G}$ is a general linear group and $\check{L}$ is a Levi subgroup. For certain cuspidal Eisenstein series, we prove that their period is equal to a finite sum of special values of $L$-functions. This sum is indexed by the fixed points of the associated extended $L$-parameter on $\check{M}$, confirming a conjecture by Ben-Zvi-Sakellaridis-Venkatesh in thi…

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
JUSTIN: They'll come in when they're hungry enough. All except Og.
DAYNA: Why won't he?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/229 B7B5

Been re-reading Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor".
Winner published this in 1988 and it still 100% applies. His criticism of "values" discourse, of certain strategies of trying to defend important structures by adopting the language and thinking of the opponent. The focus on numbers while devaluing experience. The hollowness of the decentralization discourse.
Damn.

In an experiment, ChatGPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions (Kelsey Piper/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/do-ais-think-differently-in-different

Do AIs think differently in different languages?
What I learned by asking chatbots questions in Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi

Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…

»A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one:
For most developers, the only time they touch colour values is when they copy them from a design file and paste them into their editor. We are developers and not designers, after all.«
— by @… on @…

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series, by Kevin Powell, is for you.

Mordell--Tornheim zeta function: Kronecker limit type formulas and Special values
Sumukha Sathyanarayana, N. Guru Sharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10093 https://

Mordell--Tornheim zeta function: Kronecker limit type formulas and Special values
In this paper, we establish Kronecker limit type formulas for the generalized Mordell--Tornheim zeta function $Θ(r,s,t,x)$ as a function of the third variable, in terms of Riemann-zeta and Gamma values. We also give series evaluations of $Θ(r,s,t,x)$ in terms of Herglotz-Zagier type functions, and their derivatives. As applications of this, we derive Kronecker limit type formula in the second variable and a new infinite family of modular relations called mixed functional equations. We also st…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127235/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

What the movement sorely needs is a bipartisan imprimatur.
There must be Republicans who still believe in the democratic values that Bush voiced in his second Inaugural, 20 years ago.
“Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?”
Their continued silence puts sand in the movement’s gears

Arithmetic Hirzebruch-Zagier divisors and central derivative values of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions
Jeanine Van Order
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10303 https://

Arithmetic Hirzebruch-Zagier divisors and central derivative values of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions
We give two distinct proofs of the Gross-Zagier formula in terms of sums of automorphic Green's functions realized as regularized theta lifts, including one involving arithmetic Hirzebruch-Zagier divisors on the Hilbert modular surface $X_0(N) \times X_0(N)$. We then describe applications to the refined conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. Through these calculations, we also describe known and conjectural relations of the central derivative values of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions that appear…

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks to pay every state cop in Louisiana for seven years.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: The President will be answering questions about new population control *?measures
RAVELLA: All our food and drink is treated with suppressants. Going without for a day and a half, they should be wearing off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/9 B7…

I mean I'll take "Engineer" but why the fuck would you put this into your "free wireless at our location" captive portal?

An unintended consequence of Trumpian authoritarianism is a massive awakening of citizens to the values and benefits of American democracy, and a determination to protect it.
In June, under the banner of
“No Kings,”
more than 5 million people, in more than 2,000 cities and towns, in all 50 states, participated in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
Every week since, protests have continued with thousands of participants in small and large cities, blue and re…

It Turns Out Americans Value Their Constitutional Rights
Resistance to authoritarianism spurs passion for democratic values and the determination to protect them.

Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/revolut-backers-near-en…

You cannot be a company arguing about values (right to repair, autonomy) and then trample other people's rights. Shame on @….
https://bsd.network/@dch/1153425494265

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: (@dch@bsd.network)
Hey @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org I just cancelled my order because you fund #HateSpeech via hyprland & omarchy. I got a minisforum workstation instead of funding your sponsorship. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Sources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B just weeks ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-data-cen…

OpenAI’s Data Center Partner Nears $120 Million Stock Sale For Its Employees
Crusoe, a startup developing a large data center in Texas for Oracle and OpenAI, is arranging an employee share sale that values the seven-year-old firm at around $13 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. The deal involves selling around $120 million worth of ...

Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/17/stripe-para…

Exclusive: Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo raises $500 million round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Greenoaks
The Series A values the Matt Huang-led Tempo at $5 billion and includes participation from Sequoia, Ribbit, and SV Angel.

Trump’s efforts to disband programs that promote democracy abroad
and to downplay allegations of corruption and human rights abuses in other countries
took on an added dimension this week
when he appeared before Israel’s parliament and called for pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The request to dismiss corruption charges was the latest in a long line of actions reversing America’s long-standing posture as an exporter of democratic values.

Trump’s pardon proposals go global despite allies’ corruption charges
Trump has upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374683/coinbase-invests-coindcx

NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange invests $2B in Polymarket in a deal that values the prediction market at ~$8B; Atlanta-based ICE has a $90B market cap (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/nyse-ow