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This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- Functional Continuous Decomposition
Teymur Aghayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20857 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130499236089653
- SpatiaLQA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Logical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Xie, Zhang, Shan, Zhu, Tang, Wei, Song, Wan, Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20901 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130845273808954
- Some Simple Economics of AGI
Christian Catalini, Xiang Hui, Jane Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econGN_bot/116130470423837005
- Multimodal MRI Report Findings Supervised Brain Lesion Segmentation with Substructures
Yubin Ge, Yongsong Huang, Xiaofeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20994 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116130212832138624
- MIP Candy: A Modular PyTorch Framework for Medical Image Processing
Tianhao Fu, Yucheng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21033 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130864279556063
- Empirically Calibrated Conditional Independence Tests
Milleno Pan, Antoine de Mathelin, Wesley Tansey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21036 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116130690605113562
- Is Multi-Distribution Learning as Easy as PAC Learning: Sharp Rates with Bounded Label Noise
Rafael Hanashiro, Abhishek Shetty, Patrick Jaillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21039 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130572661848449
- Position-Aware Sequential Attention for Accurate Next Item Recommendations
Timur Nabiev, Evgeny Frolov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21052 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116130263323086316
- Motivation is Something You Need
Mehdi Acheli, Walid Gaaloul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21064 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130680774678580
- An Enhanced Projection Pursuit Tree Classifier with Visual Methods for Assessing Algorithmic Impr...
Natalia da Silva, Dianne Cook, Eun-Kyung Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21130 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130610674573081
- Complexity of Classical Acceleration for $\ell_1$-Regularized PageRank
Kimon Fountoulakis, David Mart\'inez-Rubio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21138 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116130547076073836
- LUMEN: Longitudinal Multi-Modal Radiology Model for Prognosis and Diagnosis
Jiang, Yang, Nath, Parida, Kulkarni, Xu, Xu, Anwar, Roth, Linguraru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21142 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130871488694585
- A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
Debjit Paul, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21143 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130692571594706
- Scaling State-Space Models on Multiple GPUs with Tensor Parallelism
Anurag Dutt, Nimit Shah, Hazem Masarani, Anshul Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21144 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116130520888343997
- Not Just How Much, But Where: Decomposing Epistemic Uncertainty into Per-Class Contributions
Mame Diarra Toure, David A. Stephens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21160 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130618512594211
- Aletheia tackles FirstProof autonomously
Tony Feng, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21201 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130705679345625
- Squint: Fast Visual Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Robotics
Abdulaziz Almuzairee, Henrik I. Christensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21203 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/116130765974498223
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“Think about that: You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.
This is not a hypothetical. It is your lived reality. It is America.”
https://www.

What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

PDFs are already shit for users, so no surprise LLMs barf on them:
“The war against PDFs is heating up”
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/24/the-war-against-pdfs-is-heating-up (

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/115953632587673647
Police and military uniforms have converged on a “special forces” look. SNL mocked ICE for wearing camo: “Where did you think Minnesota is??” But that’s the •look•: camo, tactical gear. It is the look ICE officers crave: “This is so cool, like Call of Duty” one said. And now you can’t tell all the militaries and militarized police forces apart, to the point where they have to wear safety vests over camo. High-vis! Over camo! The irony.
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Like all the rest of the nerds, I did a bit of tech support on family computers.
They're all popping up windows from scam virus scanners lying that subscriptions need to be renewed or machines are unprotected. People don't know how to remove these things. Luckily they also don't really know how to pay the subscription.
Their phones are updating on them. Changing where buttons used to be. Removing options. Forcing people to register to use they things they have been doing for years.
They don't know how to register.
Things pop up asking for passwords and they have no idea who is asking or which password to use.
I tell them that I don't really understand why they keep using Windows now it is so shitty and awful. They say they don't know how to use anything else. The fact they don't really know how to use windows either doesn't seem to register.
The tech corporations have given up completely on being user friendly. They are all deliberately user hostile and exploitative now.
Corporate tech is terrible. The industry is failing it's users, abusing them. People don't even know there is any other way. They are just giving up on achieving their tasks until someone can fix the pop-ups and subscription boxes and passwords and 2fa for them.
Tech sucks now. Sucks hard.
#tech #christmasTechSupport

1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail

Guter Artikel von Imke Stock darüber, wer die #ICE-Mascine antreibt. Sie erwähnt es nicht im Detail, aber ein Teil der Data Broker, die missionskritisch für ICE sind, stammen ursprünglich aus dem Wissenschaftsbereich wie #LexisNexis oder

Senate offices are closed today,
but you can email your senators and demand that they use their vote later this week to rein in ICE and CBP death squads:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good-senate/?source=mastodon

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities. And yet, the DHS appropriations bill that just passed the House would hand MORE funding to ICE and Border Patrol, and do little to rein in their abuses. So …

BELGOROD is not a random target – it is from here that Russia launches missiles and drones #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/belgorod-is-not-a-random.html