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Yesterday as I unicycled home I came up behind some guy on one of those small electric transport devices that have a single wheel in the middle of a board that is ridden like a skateboard. The guy riding it was not going very fast (and intentionally weaving back and forth). Probably just having fun because it was new, I guess. I was faster than him but since he weaved so much I did not feel comfortable overtaking.

Listening to @… weaving ideas of commoning, governance, scale, institutions, rights, life and growth.
How can we start to practice commoning, taking advantage of fragile points during the omnicrisis, to make things better?
#FestivalOfCommoning

Weaving Information Packets
Ole Christensen, Hong Oh Kim, Rae Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07503 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07503

Weaving Information Packets
The concept of weaving of frames for Hilbert spaces was introduced by Bemrose et al. in 2016. Two frames $\{f_k\}_{k\in I}, \{g_k\}_{k\in I}$ are woven if the ``mixed system" $\{f_k\}_{k\in σ} \cup \{g_k\}_{k\in I\setminus σ}$ is a frame for each index set $σ\subset I;$ that is, processing a signal using two woven frames yields a certain stability against loss of information. The concept easily extends to $N$ frames, for any integer $N>2.$ Unfortunately it is nontrivial to cons…

"In my opinion... for the left-wing militant in general, and the worker in particular, even more particularly the communist worker: start weaving, so to speak, have a loom at home; one cannot continue speaking out against pollution while polluting intensely."
Manuel Sacristšn, influential Spanish eco-Marxist, speaking in 1979. He doesn't mean literally start weaving, although one could, but to live lightly on the earth while struggling against the system.

1/2 In a piece about Canadian politics, probably not of interest to outsiders, I suspect this will amuse many:
“Trump’s [team] are every bit the … “Bad Boy” Detroit Pistons of the late 80s … Trump is peak Bill Laimbeer, sneering and fouling everything in sight. JD Vance is Dennis Rodman, an Energizer bunny clearing the boards. And Stephen Miller is Isaiah Thomas, the floor general weaving through defences and chirping at his opponents with an insouciant mug begging to be slapped.”

AQuilt: Weaving Logic and Self-Inspection into Low-Cost, High-Relevance Data Synthesis for Specialist LLMs
Xiaopeng Ke, Hexuan Deng, Xuebo Liu, Jun Rao, Zhenxi Song, Jun Yu, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18584

AQuilt: Weaving Logic and Self-Inspection into Low-Cost, High-Relevance Data Synthesis for Specialist LLMs
Despite the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) in general domains, they often underperform in specialized domains. Existing approaches typically rely on data synthesis methods and yield promising results by using unlabeled data to capture domain-specific features. However, these methods either incur high computational costs or suffer from performance limitations, while also demonstrating insufficient generalization across different tasks. To address these challenges, we prop…

ReWeave: Traffic Engineering with Robust Path Weaving for Localized Link Failure Recover
Jingyi Guan, Kun Qiu, Jin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00708 https://

ReWeave: Traffic Engineering with Robust Path Weaving for Localized Link Failure Recover
Link failures occur frequently in Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks and pose significant challenges for Traffic Engineering (TE). Existing TE schemes either reroute traffic over vulnerable static paths, leading to performance degradation, or precompute backup routes for a broad range of failure scenarios, which introduces high overhead and limits scalability. Hence, an effective failure recovery mechanism is required to offer sufficient path diversity under constrained overhead, thereby …

CROSSROADS is San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival, dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary avant-garde film, video and performance work.
CROSSROADS 2025 features 47 works of film, video and performance by 47 artists representing 20 countries and territories presented in 8 curated programs.
Weaving through this year’s lineup are alchemical, environmental evocations of utopian and dystopian realities;
ruminations on the impermanence inherent in existence; …

Weaving the Future: Generative AI and the Reimagining of Fashion Design
Pierre-Marie Chauvin (IFM, AHP-PReST), Ang\`ele Merlin (IFM, AHP-PReST), Xavier Fresquet (IFM, AHP-PReST), Hugo Caselles-Dupr\'e (IFM, AHP-PReST), Benjamin Simmenauer (IFM, AHP-PReST), Mathieu de Fayet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17758…

Weaving the Future: Generative AI and the Reimagining of Fashion Design
This paper explores the integration of generative AI into the fashion design process. Drawing on insights from the January 2025 seminar ``Tisser le futur,'' it investigates how AI reshapes creative workflows, from ideation to prototyping, while interrogating the ethical, aesthetic, and labor implications. The paper highlights co-creative dynamics between humans and machines, the potential for aesthetic innovation, and the environmental and cultural challenges of algorithmic design.

Evidence of Compact Wavefunctions from Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction
Tim Weaving, Angus Mingare, Alexis Ralli, Peter V. Coveney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02525 htt…

Evidence of Compact Wavefunctions from Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction
A recent direction in quantum computing for molecular electronic structure sees the use of quantum devices as configuration sampling machines integrated within high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This appeals to the strengths of both the quantum and classical hardware; where state-sampling is classically hard, the quantum computer can provide computational advantage in the selection of high quality configuration subspaces, while the final molecular energies are evaluated by solving an i…

Community-Centered Spatial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation at Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore
Gabriel Spadon, Oladapo Oyebode, Camilo M. Botero, Tushar Sharma, Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01845

Community-Centered Spatial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation at Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore
This paper presents an overview of a human-centered initiative aimed at strengthening climate resilience along Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. This region, a collection of rural villages with deep ties to the sea, faces existential threats from climate change that endanger its way of life. Our project moves beyond a purely technical response, weaving together expertise from Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, and Coastal Geography to co-create tools with the community. By integrating generat…

Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Generating and Weaving Topological Event Wavepackets in Photonic Spacetime Crystals with Fully Energy-Momentum Gapped
Liang Zhang, Zirui Zhao, Qiaofei Pan, Chenhao Pan, Qingqing Cheng, Yiming Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15309

Generating and Weaving Topological Event Wavepackets in Photonic Spacetime Crystals with Fully Energy-Momentum Gapped
We propose a novel type of topological excitation topological event wavepackets (TEWs) emerging in photonic spacetime crystals (STCs) with spacetime modulated dielectric constants. These TEWs exhibit strong spatiotemporal localization and are topologically protected by a fully opened energy momentum (ωk) gap, within which conventional steady states are absent. We further demonstrate that TEWs are spectrally confined within the ωk-gap, providing a combined measurement for probing the emergence…

The Epigenetic Tapestry: A Review of DNA Methylation and Non-Coding RNA's Interplay with Genetic Threads, Weaving a Network Impacting Gene Expression and Disease Manifestations
Yu-Li He, Youshin Loh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06781

The Epigenetic Tapestry: A Review of DNA Methylation and Non-Coding RNA's Interplay with Genetic Threads, Weaving a Network Impacting Gene Expression and Disease Manifestations
The emerging field of epigenetics has recently unveiled a dynamic landscape in which gene expression is not determined solely by genetic sequences but also by intricate regulatory mechanisms. This review examines the interactions between these regulatory mechanisms, including DNA methylation and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), that orchestrate gene expression fine-tuning for cellular homeostasis and the pathogenesis of a multitude of diseases. We explore long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) such as telomer…

Spatial-temporal risk field-based coupled dynamic-static driving risk assessment and trajectory planning in weaving segments
Guodong Ma, Baofeng Sun, Hongchao Liang, Wenyu Yang, Huxing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19513