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Call for Papers: "Religion"
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Rutgers Global Affairs Conference now VIRTUAL - new CFP deadline Rutgers University…
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Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/discords-virtual-reward-orbs-la…

Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta | TechCrunch
According to Discord, Orbs have been popular among testers, with millions earned and spent during the seven-week beta period.

für die Spontanen und Kurzentschlossenen: in etwas mehr als einer Stunde startet der "virtuelle Spaziergang durch das digitalisierte Berliner Kulturerbe". Hier geht's zur Last-Minute-Anmeldung: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/de/b/fbbf71e8002fe99787…

Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/discords-virtual-reward-orbs-la…

Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta | TechCrunch
According to Discord, Orbs have been popular among testers, with millions earned and spent during the seven-week beta period.

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Panagiotis Kourtesis, Evgenia Giatzoglou, Panagiotis Vorias, Katerina Alkisti Gounari, Eleni Orfanidou, Chrysanthi Nega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19519

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Virtual reality (VR) can enrich neuropsychological testing, yet the ergonomic trade-offs of its input modes remain under-examined. Seventy-seven healthy volunteers-young (19-29 y) and middle-aged (27-56 y)-completed a VR Trail-Making Test with three pointing methods: eye-tracking, head-gaze, and a six-degree-of-freedom hand controller. Completion time, spatial accuracy, and error counts for the simple (Trail A) and alternating (Trail B) sequences were analysed in 3 x 2 x 2 mixed-model ANOVAs; p…

It’s a replay of January 6
where Trump spent months saying what he was going to do
and virtually every Official Serious Person in America laughed it off
because, if he was being honest, that would mean he intended a coup
and obviously THAT wasn’t going to happen
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What do kids want these days?
https://www.freerangekids.com/want-kids-to-spend-less-time-in-the-virtual-world-give-them-back-the-real-one/

Want Kids to Spend Less Time in the Virtual World? Give Them Back the Real One! - Free-Range Kids
Are kids on their phones all the time because that’s what they love the most? An explosive new Harris Poll finds that actually, what kids 8-12 REALLY want to do is hang out together in real life – with no adults hovering, and no screens. They go online because that’s the only place they can

Has anyone provided helper functions with and for one of their :nixos: #NixOS modules? 🤔
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/providing-helper-functions-in-and…

Providing helper functions in and for a module
Some (of my) module options would benefit greatly from helper functions for defining option values. An example would be populating services.jupyterub.kernels, which can get quite verbose if you include things like wrapping in an FHS env or custom virtualenv management. Sure, types.submodule exists, but such a submodule is rather suitable for perfectly similar structures with just different values. Instead, something like this would be helpful: { pkgs, config, lib, ... }: { services.jupyterhu…

« To the extent that we are stuck for now with untrustworthy LLMs that nobody can quite control, rapidly enshittifying the internet with botshit and replacing humans with systems that can’t be relied on, it is in part because we have spent too much energy pursuing the pure neural net black box approach, and not enough into looking at alternatives. We are drowning in a sea of mediocre prose precisely because LLMs, the backbone of virtually all current sytems, lack the underlying representatio…

How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI
Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so long

Static Analysis for Detecting Transaction Conflicts in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Zareh Chahoki Atefeh, Roveri Marco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04357 https:/…

Static Analysis for Detecting Transaction Conflicts in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Ethereum smart contracts operate in a concurrent environment where multiple transactions can be submitted simultaneously. However, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) enforces sequential execution of transactions within each block to prevent conflicts arising from concurrent access to the same state variables. Although this approach guarantees correct behavior, it limits the ability of validators to leverage multi-core architectures for faster transaction processing, thus restricting throughput.…