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Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/angela-rayners-real-offence-being-32422596

Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power
British politics just became a little less northern, a little less working class, and a little less female - and that loss should worry us all', writes Rob Williams.

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.”
Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim…

This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We’re going to fight for working families. We’re going to stand with immigrants. We’re going to stand with the diversity of this city.” Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a “Muslim …

My niece is in charge of props for a local theater group and asked if I could try to get these light sabers working.
I have never used one of these but when I finally got it powered on and it said "Powered up!" I nearly shit myself.
I did not expect it to talk.
I've seen every Star Wars film and they never talk!
I got one of them working fine, the other had a spicy pillow so I'll replace the battery and see if that gets it sorted.

We've been working with Liquid Glass all summer (with the first fruits of that effort being visible in today's test builds of OmniFocus 4.8). So, naturally, this Ohrwurm song by @… has had many occasions to be summoned to my mental soundtrack—ever since the first preview he played in the car on the way to @…

One of USA’s last remaining independent journalistic outlets… *checks notes*… Teen Vogue… is shuttered. https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/115491522193236227

azteclady (@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)
Attached: 2 images #PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning. That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine. If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do. Note how "facts" becomes "prog…

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/microsoft-built-a-synthet…

Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways | TechCrunch
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.

Dallas Cowboys working on 'record-setting' deal with star player https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-working-on-record-setting-deal-with-star-player

Are you a data professional working with:
▫️SQL Server
▫️#Azure SQL
▫️SQL in #Fabric
▫️#SQL Tools
Get ready for SQLCon 2026, March 16–20, 2026, in parallel w/ FabCon 2026!
✅ Ann…

Someone made a low-end #Android phone and glued a #LoRa #Mesh module on its back.

So fun things with this camper conversion. The day after I dropped it off he tells me a medical crisis is gonna stop him being able to do the work.
Later find out that now he's over 50 he decided to go on a health kick, and only drink distilled water.
🤦‍♂️
So he ended up flushing all the electrolytes out of his system and having a nervous system crisis the week he was supposed to be working on my van.
😆
Consult your doctors about your health-kicks people!
He managed to fit a kit thing, rather than do the custom job. Seems possible that will be enough and it won't be rescheduled, but live in it a bit first to find out.
Managed to sleep in it okay, even poorly parked on a slope and with a fractured wrist.

The first large project that I took on basically alone in a large environment was polishing the custom-crafted system for feeding printers into something less support-ticket-generating at Daimler-Chrysler. That provides a rough date... The original author (who had become management) praised my work.
It got me a promotion of sorts. I graduated to no longer being required to work on printer issues or with anyone who might have printer issues.

Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity
Mikhail Mints, Finn Voichick, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Robert Rand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02857 https:/…

Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity
Most existing quantum programming languages are based on the quantum circuit model of computation, as higher-level abstractions are particularly challenging to implement - especially ones relating to quantum control flow. The Qunity language, proposed by Voichick et al., offered such an abstraction in the form of a quantum control construct, with great care taken to ensure that the resulting language is still realizable. However, Qunity lacked a working implementation, and the originally propos…

This #wasp is cutting cat food into smaller pieces and flies away with them!😡

Georgio Provinciali is an engineer, journalist, and war reporter working in Ukraine.
Georgio is one of the most hated people by Russians, because he reports the truth from the trenches of their genocide in Ukraine. Truths that directly contradict the lies of their ghoulish leader Putin.
Russians can't stop from lying, it is a cultural aspect of their self-loathing and backwards view on life- a view that insists they are opposed by everything that is not-Russian.
A perv…

Russia Spreads Lies About War
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

"His uncle urged companies to be more mindful of staff who frequently come into the office at odd hours, suggesting that awareness alone could save lives" - Updated story reflects he had a heart attack. Had someone else been there, or had he not been working late to begin with, someone could have been around to act
Telling remark, "practice originated in China and was eventually banned there after being linked to burnout and deaths"

My niece is in charge of props for a local theater group and asked if I could try to get these light sabers working.
I have never used one of these but when I finally got it powered on and it said "Powered up!" I nearly shit myself.
I did not expect it to talk.
I've seen every Star Wars film and they never talk!
I got one of them working fine, the other had a spicy pillow so I'll replace the battery and see if that gets it sorted.

Working in Lightroom: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/10/03/working-in-lightroom.html
Getting my Lightroom in order

Working in Lightroom
Getting my Lightroom in order

After sharing #vim and #neovim keybindings all over the place, I finally connected a couple of neurons and realized, 'Hey, maybe it’s time to share the one I actually use the most.' So here’s a handy little list, perfect for when I inevitably need to share them again (because I will).
…

Well, I've just spent half an hour on YouTube browsing songs about wartime prostitution (don't ask why) without being asked for any kind of age verification, if anyone wants to know how the OSA is working in the field.

We've done the science—let's get on with climate action #climate

We've done the science—let's get on with climate action
For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the evidence has become clearer. My colleagues have measured rising CO₂ levels in Antarctic ice cores. We have seen ice caps retreat, permafrost melt, ecosystems shift, and species vanish. Every single working day of my life has been a front-row seat to a planet in rapid transformation.

This recent working paper by Robert Metcalfe e.a. for Centre for Net Zero (part of Octopus Group) shows how effective automated EV smart charging is:
"42% reduction in household electricity demand during peak hours, with 100% of this demand shifted to low-cost, low-emission off-peak periods."
Working paper and summary:

#EU5 working nice in #linux so far!
#proton

Uncovering origins of heterogeneous superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ using quantum sensors
Srinivas V. Mandyam, Esther Wang, Zhipan Wang, Bijuan Chen, Nishan C. Jayarama, Anmay Gupta, Eric A. Riesel, Valery I. Levitas, Christopher R. Laumann, Norman Y. Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02429

Uncovering origins of heterogeneous superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ using quantum sensors
The family of nickelate superconductors have long been explored as analogs of the high temperature cuprates. Nonetheless, the recent discovery that certain stoichiometric nickelates superconduct up to high $T_c$ under pressure came as a surprise. The mechanisms underlying the superconducting state remain experimentally unclear. In addition to the practical challenges posed by working in a high pressure environment, typical samples exhibit anomalously weak diamagnetic responses, which have been …

I’m working as an election inspector today (6am to 9pm). There’s only a single question on the ballot, a county-wide school millage, and what with vote-by-mail and early voting, I’ll be surprised if we get even 20 in-person voters all day. In fact, we just got our first.
#a2votes

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Full Professor of Applied #Mineralogy at GeoZentrum Nordbayern, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Bavaria, #Germany) #geology ⚒️🧪

Professorships
Check which professorships are currently vacant at FAU. Deadlines and contact details are listed in each call for applications. The online application process is straightforward through the…

Most Americans still don’t know that alcohol can cause cancer — and the alcohol industry is working hard to make sure it stays that way.
For the past three years, the industry,
aided by its allies in Congress and later the Trump administration,
has sought to discredit and eventually bury a major analysis
that offers new evidence of the link between drinking alcohol and getting sick and dying from various causes, including cancer.
It appears their campaign has succ…

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Scientists provided the Trump administration with evidence of alcohol’s harms. Here’s why you still haven’t seen this new study.

Just wasted like an hour trying to get a simple bidirectional bus to work on a Trion. ILA was reading garbage on a design that had previously been working.
Eventually I gave up. Blew away the Efinity project, recreated it from scratch on the same RTL and constraints. Now it works.
I have no idea what happened.
In general the unified flow seems to be *very* buggy wrt making any changes to the RTL and not propagating properly to the interface constraints.

It's amazing how often "Questions usually have answers, and we can find the specific supporting evidence for them" is both true and a helpful attitude to have when working in tech.

Meet Ziada Kassimu: a medical assistant doctor and climate activist in Tanzania working to empower women and girls through the REPower Afrika campaign. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

REpower Afrika: Ziada Kassimu
“Working with 350.org has been a joy, as it's not about words: it's about action. 350 takes action on moving communities away from fossil fuels, impacting their livelihoods and giving them opportunities to grow and speak for themselves”

Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @… Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.)

At a crossroads. I feel so very done with decades of working in large IT projects.

Considering pursuing employment, or going all in on becoming more independent selling digital products (templates, worksheets, courses, ebooks and more).

I think I really would like to give the latter a go, but it also feels incredibly daunting. I need to set up a plan, but obviously should also do market research, likely by doing some proof of concepts and MVPs…

Or start a physical bo…

I'm astonished to see the stats of my LinkedIn Learning course on OpenShift… and to discover that almost 14'000 students worldwide took it in the past 2 years 😲
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-openshift/

Learning OpenShift Online Class | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com
Learn the skills you need to know as a Kubernetes developer to start working with OpenShift 4 clusters.

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
Read more in my latest at @…

Long silenced, gig workers in Indonesia are organising and fighting for their rights
On 29 August 2024, the streets around the Presidential palace and the headquarters of Grab and GoJek in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, were filled with thousands of striking motorcycle taxi gig workers and their allies, wearing green jackets, helmets, and carrying signs calling on better working conditions and legal protections. It was the latest in what has become a regular occurrence across the country: actions, strikes and protests by an increasingly organised sector. Gig workers, long (…)

> personally, I was interested in cognitive science, partly because I was like, “all this linguistic stuff has no application. It’s pure science. It won’t be turned into a tool against the working class or into a weapon or something.” And then this stuff happens. And I’m like, well, fuck, that was a miscalculation from my part.
from (substack) www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-an-attack-from-above-on-wages

ZTF SNe Ia DR2: Towards cosmology-grade ZTF supernova light curves using scene modeling photometry
L. Lacroix, N. Regnault, T. de Jaeger, M. Le Jeune, M. Betoule, J. -M. Colley, M. Bernard, M. Rigault, M. Smith, A. Goobar, K. Maguire, G. Dimitriadis, J. Nordin, J. Johansson, M. Aubert, C. Barjou, E. C. Bellm, S. Bongard, U. Burgaz, B. Carreres, D. Fouchez, F. Feinstein, L. Galbany, M. Ginolin, M. Graham, D. Kuhn, R. R. Laher, T. E. M\"uller-Bravo, J. Neveu, M. Osman, B. Popovic, B…

ZTF SNe Ia DR2: Towards cosmology-grade ZTF supernova light curves using scene modeling photometry
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a wide-field survey of the northern sky in three optical bands and the collaboration cosmology working group has released 3628 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered during its first 2.5 years of operation. This "ZTF SN Ia DR2" sample is the largest SN Ia dataset to date. Fully exploiting this dataset to improve understanding of the properties of dark energy requires a photometric accuracy of O(0.1%). This can be ac…

The irony is not lost on me that working from ostensive definition — “supervised learning” in the biz — is in fact an area in which modern “AI” excels: “Here are 10000 pictures of cats, and 10000 pictures of not-cats. Now, is this a picture of a cat?” Machines have got pretty darned good at that in many spheres.
Does that mean we could train an AI to definitely answer whether AI is in fact “intelligence,” since intelligence is in practice defined by example? In short, no — and I think there’s a spark of insight in answering that question:

Generative KI f\"ur TA
Wolfgang Eppler, Reinhard Heil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02053 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02053…

Generative KI für TA
Many scientists use generative AI in their scientific work. People working in technology assessment (TA) are no exception. TA's approach to generative AI is twofold: on the one hand, generative AI is used for TA work, and on the other hand, generative AI is the subject of TA research. After briefly outlining the phenomenon of generative AI and formulating requirements for its use in TA, the following article discusses in detail the structural causes of the problems associated with it. Although …

With iOS 26.1 now released, is it worth updating if we are still holding on iOS 18?
How's battery life? Bugs?
My iOS 18.5 is working quite well so i'm not really in a rush
#ios #liquidglass

Watching a movie and the scene is trying to build tension by showing everyone’s shirts, hair and scarves blowing in the wind.
And it ain’t working real well.
It does look cool though.
#movie #film

September first is TelemetryDeckiversary! Five years ago me and my bestie @… started working on TelemetryDeck in earnest, and I still love it.
Most of the early code was written in the south of Italy, where I was successfully hiding from COVID while Lisa was back in Augsburg

In High Production Mode for BGAB
Velour with hand embroidered blossoms Passport case I started a while back but just finished Interior of Passport Case I’ve been working in the studio as much as I can to make as much product stuff as I can for the upcoming Blue Genie Art Bazaar. I recently finished a bunch of zippie pouches (lined in orange fabric, and the sparkle vinyl ones have glow in the dark zipper pulls) and card case wallets. The Art Bazaar runs from November…

In High Production Mode for BGAB
Velour with hand embroidered blossoms Passport case I started a while back but just finished Interior of Passport Case I’ve been working in the studio as much as I can to make as much product stuff…

Holographic thermal propagator from modularity
Borut Bajc, Katarina Trailovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02226 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02226

Holographic thermal propagator from modularity
It is known that the holographic thermal propagator in 4 spacetime dimensions can be related to the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit of the $Ω$-deformed ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory with $N_f=4$ hypermultiplets. There are two expansions involved: one is the expansion in small temperature which in the Seiberg-Witten language is equivalent to the semiclassical expansion in inverse powers of the large adjoint vev and the second is the expansion in instanton numbers. Working in …

A quick Gaza Verified update:
I’m currently traveling so I won’t be online all the time in the next week.
I’m also working on a new automated verification call scheduling system that I hope we can start using next week. It will automate everything but the actual video calls themselves and add some more checks to our verification process. It also removes Signal from our process, replacing it with an embedded Jitsi video call component.
These developments are based on our exp…

Pete Carroll among coaches working into 70s, opting for team building over retirement https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/pete-carroll-among-coaches-working-into-70s-opting-for-team-building-over-re…

Most of the 475 people arrested at Hyundai facility in Georgia are Korean nationals
The arrested workers were being held at Ice’s Folkston, Georgia detention facility.
Local Korean media said roughly 300 people detained were South Korean nationals.
“It is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Co.
We prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone working at the site and comply with all laws and regulations wherever we op…

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Curious if these are some kind of tiny nest fungus or one of the jelly varieties. I'm always in awe of how many tiny powerhouses a forest contains. Collectively, this colony of mushrooms is capable of digesting a giant log. (Still working through the batch of photos I took up north this summer.) #fungifriday

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-error?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&amp…

I am enthusiastic about GenAI , it's possible applications and added value in specific usescases, but please let's not start using CoPilot in Excel with these accuracy numbers...😆 Imagine that workers would actually start using this and not checking their work. It could destroy productivity...

I just love being tech support for my wife. Actually I don't mind... until it's about printers.
So yeah, Epson pushed out an update to her printer that made it stop working with third party ink cartridges. I'm not shocked that they would do that, but did have to explain that Epson considers this to be a feature, not a bug.
While in there, I had to troubleshoot why the printer was not on the network. Somewhere along the line the ip address got flipped from dhcp to manu…

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/incident-response-ransomware-professionals-charge…

Prosecutors allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat to commit string of ransomware attacks
The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.

Supporting a Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Agriculture Federation using Dashboarding
Klervie Tocz\'e, Iffat Fatima, Patricia Lago, Lia van Wesenbeeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00595

Supporting a Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Agriculture Federation using Dashboarding
Reliable access to food is a basic requirement in any sustainable society. However, achieving food security for all is still a challenge, especially for poor populations in urban environments. The project Feed4Food aims to use a federation of Living Labs of urban agriculture in different countries as a way to increase urban food security for vulnerable populations. Since different Living Labs have different characteristics and ways of working, the vision is that the knowledge obtained in indi…

I think it is a nice idea to highlight why we like working with #Nix and #NixOS to remind us, why we all are doing this in the end.
For me it is still the best experience in #freesoftware I…

☭ Norway’s Red Party Offers a Working-Class Alternative
#norway

Norway’s Red Party Offers a Working-Class Alternative
Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar, MP, told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties.

Microsoft has invited vibe working⁠. We did it everyone! We won capitalism!
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks!
https://2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla-2026

SPLASH 2026 - OOPSLA - SPLASH 2026
Welcome to the website of the SPLASH 2026 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! In the meantime, please consider this overview of the schedule for the conference: Sunday Oct 4 Monday Oct 5 Tuesday Oct 6 Wednesday Oct 7 Thursday Oct 8 Friday Oct 9 PLMW OOPSLA OOPSLA OOPSLA Onward! Onward! Doctoral Symposium ISSTA ISSTA ISSTA REBASE REBASE REBASE Summer School Summer School Workshops Works…

#PreciousPlastic is a global community of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free
LET'S BUILD V.5:
==
We spent the last 10 years building a network of plastic recyclers around the world. Yet despite progress, only 10% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, the same as when we started

An Arkansas man was detained for a month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice)
after authorities mistook his bottle of perfume for opium❗️
Kapil Raghu, an Indian national married to an American woman and working towards American citizenship,
was detained on 3 May after police officers in Benton, a suburb of Little Rock, pulled him over for having a non-moving traffic violation, according to his attorney, Mike Laux.
⚠️ During the traffic stop, police found a s…

“The Beginning and Ending of Threat Actors” by @…
“Instead, Volt Typhoon becomes a construct: a cluster of linked actions, behavioral tendencies, and targeting preferences linked to PRC interests.”
This article provides a concise and clear overview of what often happens with threat actor labeling. If you are working in “threat intelligence,” read …

The Beginning and Ending of Threat Actors
In July 2025, NSA officials at a conference in New York City made a surprising claim: “The good news is, [Volt Typhoon] really failed. They wanted to persist in domestic networks very quietly for a…

I'm working from the office today and there's some absolute maniac in the kitchen who pours the milk into their mug before taking the tea bag out. We are all agog and aghast. #tea #VeryBritishProblems

50 years ago today, a #GratefulDead session at ace’s, working on jerry garcia’s “reflections” album, reviving on a pair of then-sidelined dead songs. both songs’ 1st appearances with a 2nd drummer, mickey hart now back in the band. htt…

Effective gain spectra vary the pulses spectrum in a mode-locked cavity
Xun Xie, Wonkeun Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Effective gain spectra vary the pulses spectrum in a mode-locked cavity
Filters typically play a crucial role in generating solitons by strictly confirming the working wavelength in a mode-locked laser. However, we have found that the broad smoothing filter with saturable gain also helps to regulate the pulses' operating wavelength. The effective gain, formed by the original gain spectrum and filters, shifts its center based on pulse energy, thereby affecting the pulse spectrum. A virtual mode-locked cavity is established to verify this approach in simulation. The …

Predicting Diabetic Retinopathy Using a Two-Level Ensemble Model
Mahyar Mahmoudi, Tieming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Predicting Diabetic Retinopathy Using a Two-Level Ensemble Model
Preprint Note: This is the author preprint version of a paper accepted for presentation at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025. The final version will appear in the official proceedings. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in working-age adults, and current diagnostic methods rely on resource-intensive eye exams and specialized equipment. Image-based AI tools have shown limitations in early-stage detection, motivating the need for alternative approaches. We propose a …

Empowering students with clean energy education and hands-on experience in Indonesia. Meet Sutanpri, the headmaster leading the way towards a sustainable future. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

RESolusi network: Sutanpri
“Joining the RESolusi network has provided me with a platform to connect with other activists and groups working on climate and energy justice, and I have already learned so much from it! 350.org is always providing us with training and resources. It amplifies the voices of our communities and makes us stronger advocates too.”

Well, it's not precisely *working*, as such. But it definitely isn't not working!
Tittle: Turtles in #Clojure #Scittle, with gratitude to @… !

Repro Samples Method for Model-Free Inference in High-Dimensional Binary Classification
Xiaotian Hou, Peng Wang, Minge Xie, Linjun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01468 https:/…

Repro Samples Method for Model-Free Inference in High-Dimensional Binary Classification
This paper presents a novel method for statistical inference in high-dimensional binary models with unspecified structure, where we leverage a (potentially misspecified) sparsity-constrained working generalized linear model (GLM) to facilitate the inference process. Our method is based on the repro samples framework, which generates artificial samples that mimic the actual data-generating process. Our inference targets include the model support, case probabilities, and the oracle regression coe…

I'd like to ask a question:
Working in research at a university comes with a lot of freedom in terms of working hours and workplace design (within limits, of course). Job advertisements often label this as “flexible.”
This can lead to exploitation, so as a supervisor, I make sure that monthly working hours are balanced out in a timely manner, that vacations are actually vacations, etc.
But: sometimes it's just hectic, then deadlines, conferences elsewhere, etc.

I was fascinated to read in this am's European Correspondent that game developers across Europe are starting to unionise for better working conditions and employment protection.
It's one of the few areas where trade union membership is increasing in fact. Worth a read
https://elaine.mayoris.com/go/bjb3kj8tcubqob6fv3thyzn9tgpwdd7e5pi8gc48g5xz/2866#chk_q1-o5

What’s next? A potato battery? 😉😂🤔
From: @…
https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge/115127460519331571

Been working on some additions/adjustments for #Umbra, one of my recent algorithmic/generative art pieces, currently shown exclusively on Layer.
Here's a 3 minute segment (of an infinite realtime animation). Give it time to develop/change! Fullscreen playback probably best...
Made with

Tell Congress: NO Funding for Primate Breeding! #AnimalRights

URGENT: Tell Congress NO to Funding Primate Breeding!
Right now, Congress is working on the 2025 federal budget, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has allocated a staggering $30 million to expand primate breeding and research at National Primate Research Centers. This funding will support invasive, unethical experiments on primates—causing unimaginable suffering while advancing unreliable science that fails over 90% of the time in human clinical trials. 🔬 Despite these facts, the NIH asked for $10 million, but the Senate has tripled th…

EEG-Based Framework for Reflexive and Perceptual Assessment in CLIS: Preliminary Study in Healthy Volunteers
Nicoli Leal, Rute Bettencourt, Urbano J. Nunes, Gabriel Pires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23524

EEG-Based Framework for Reflexive and Perceptual Assessment in CLIS: Preliminary Study in Healthy Volunteers
Despite the general assumption that completely locked-in state (CLIS) patients remain conscious and aware of their environment, the effectiveness of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in facilitating communication has been limited, as reported both in the literature and in our own findings. This limitation is likely attributable to impairments in executive functions, working memory, and vigilance, which appear to hinder the establishment of reliable BCI-based communication. The main goal of this …

»Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia:
Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers.«
Telegram is absolutely insecure, not only because it is unencrypted or the drug market that goes through it, but because Russia knows exactly how to exploit young people like the mafia.
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Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia
Reports said two boys arrested in the Netherlands are suspected of working on behalf of pro-Russian hackers outside prominent buildings in The Hague.

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Folks, Dr. Abdullah (@…), one of our Gaza Verified members, was working at the heart of the danger zone in Al Shifa hospital until the last minute.
He has now safely made it to the South, in part thanks to your donations during our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal last week.
He still needs help… $500-$800 as he just told me for basic necessitie…

The #Japan #media #cooperative, @…, I've been working with for 2 y…

In his 3rd stop in 3 years, can Jets' Justin Fields become the NFL's next late-blooming quarterback? https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/in-his-3rd-stop-in-3-years-can-jets-justin-fields-become-the-nf…

U.S. citizen detained by federal agents during anti-immigrant raids of construction sites
✅has filed a class action suit against the Trump administration on behalf of “all those who stand in his shoes”
— U.S. citizens or those otherwise lawfully present in the United States who are working on construction sites in the Southern District of Alabama.
Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, was born in 1999 in Florida, and moved with his family to Alabama when he…

Stringy algebras, stretched horizons, and quantum-connected wormholes
Aidan Herderschee, Jonah Kudler-Flam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01556 https://arxiv.o…

Stringy algebras, stretched horizons, and quantum-connected wormholes
While the supergravity limit of AdS/CFT has been extensively explored, the regime in which stringy dynamics dominate, characterized by the emergence of an infinite tower of higher-spin massive modes, is far less understood. In this work, we leverage techniques from algebraic quantum field theory to investigate the extent to which hallmark features of bulk gravity survive at finite string tension and the emergence of intrinsically stringy phenomena. Working in the $g_s\rightarrow 0$ limit, we mo…

Why there is no tsunami of waste #EV batteries. And look at the EV share in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Why it is important to get V2G/V2L working for older EVs right now.

Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is "bringing vibe working" to 365 Copilot (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-offi…

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.

Breaking the Euclidean Barrier: Hyperboloid-Based Biological Sequence Analysis
Sarwan Ali, Haris Mansoor, Murray Patterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01118 https://

Breaking the Euclidean Barrier: Hyperboloid-Based Biological Sequence Analysis
Genomic sequence analysis plays a crucial role in various scientific and medical domains. Traditional machine-learning approaches often struggle to capture the complex relationships and hierarchical structures of sequence data when working in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. This limitation hinders accurate sequence classification and similarity measurement. To address these challenges, this research proposes a method to transform the feature representation of biological sequences into the hy…

I've been working on a bit of a larger project. It is still very much a work in progress. It's an attempt to combine blog and mastodon posts with other things I've written in the past, along with some original analysis, into a zine. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through.
It's primarily focused on political theory and critique, which, I think, deviates a bit from how a lot of other folks view the world. It's pretty explicitly anarchist, though I don't think I've actually put the word "anarchism" or referenced the ideology anywhere so explicitly.
I'd love feedback (especially around editing and flow) if anyone would be willing to put eyes on it and tell me what they think:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/

Days after attorney general Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department’s revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.
Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama’s White House, had convened lawyers, Democratic communications strategists, a neoconservative Trump critic, and a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
This one was big, Eisen said from his parked car in Baltimore, where he had traveled for a lawsuit to ov…

The Anti-Trump Resistance That’s Actually Working
A flurry of lawsuits is challenging Trump in the court of law and the court of public opinion.

Hi everyone,
Just a quick update that @… is alive.
We hadn’t been able to reach him this past week and we were very worried as he was in the North.
I’m now back in touch with him. He and his family have moved South but they have been sleeping on the streets. They desperately need a tent and land.
I am working to prepare and launch a se…

Gaza Verified
Emergency appeal to get the Gaza Verified families stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.

This is one of the additional electric ‘beer boats’ in #Utrecht that has just been put into service. It is loaded directly from the lorry with beer and other beverages, ready to be delivered to bars and restaurants in time for a busy Saturday evening.
There are now three (one electric since 2010, an older diesel-powered one has been retrofitted and a new one has been built. There’s also an…

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/ch…

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you again for your amazing support for our fundraiser to fund @…’s private scholarship at the University of Milan and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
Thanks to you, we were able to raise over $15,000 in under 24 hours and meet our goal.
Joy can’t thank you herself at the moment as her family has mov…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

Palantir sues two ex-employees now working at Percepta, an "AI transformation company" launched by General Catalyst, and alleges deception and stolen documents (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/ai-palantir-general-catalyst-lawsuit…

Palantir sues ex-employees over AI startup, alleging deception, stolen documents
There's been a big rise in startup-related litigation.

More than 200,000 AmeriCorps volunteers lost their jobs during April’s defunding of federal agencies by the Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Among those forcibly laid off were 25 volunteers working in agencies across Santa Barbara County.
On Friday, August 29, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) re-funded $184 million to AmeriCorps nationwide, of which $11.5 million comes to California.

AmeriCorps Program Gets Its Funding Back After DOGE Cuts
Case workers for homeless people in Santa Barbara County are federally funded again.

🚨 Help Evacuate Joy to Milan 🚨
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own @…
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and w…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

SANTA BARBARA — On Labor Day, Monday, September 1, at 11:00 a.m., community members will gather at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara as part of a nationwide day of protest to honor working people and stand strong against billionaire exploitation and corporate domination.
Across the country, workers, students, parents, and neighbors are rising up to demand dignity, justice, and investment in people
— not billionaire empires.
The Santa Barbara event will include protest song…

How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html…

Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

RICHARD MASSEY:
“No one here in MEMPHIS asked for military occupation…
this is not a war on crime,
it’s a war on the working class…
we know better than to sign off on our city becoming a blueprint for authoritarianism.”
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.b

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
🔥 RICHARD MASSEY: “No one here in MEMPHIS asked for military occupation… this is not a war on crime, it’s a war on the working class… we know better than to sign off on our city becoming a blueprint for authoritarianism.”

Emil Bove Continued to Work at Justice Dept. After Judicial Confirmation
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in.
But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows
Some legal experts said that working for the administration after being confirmed could undermine faith in the court system.
Others expressed worry that Mr. Bove could expose himself to potential conflicts,
advising Justic…

Emil Bove Continued to Work at Trump’s Justice Dept, Even After Judicial Confirmation
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.