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Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/charact…

Character.AI taps Meta's former VP of business products as CEO | TechCrunch
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.

Denseness results for zeros and roots of unity in character tables
Alexander R. Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15153 https://arxiv…

Denseness results for zeros and roots of unity in character tables
For any irreducible character $χ$ of a finite group $G$, let $θ(χ)$ denote the proportion of elements $g\in G$ for which $χ(g)$ is either zero or a root of unity. Then for any $L\in[1/2,1]$ and any $ε>0$, there exists an irreducible character $χ$ of a finite group such that $|θ(χ)-L|<ε$.

Counting Matrices in SL3(Z) with Fixed Completely Split Character Polynomial: Preliminary Upper Bounds
Igor Rivin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15129 https://…

Counting Matrices in SL3(Z) with Fixed Completely Split Character Polynomial: Preliminary Upper Bounds
We count matrices in the special linear group SL(n, Z) whose characteristic polynomials split completely over Q.

Romance, Relief, and Regret: Teen Narratives of Chatbot Overreliance
Mohammad 'Matt' Namvarpour, Brandon Brofsky, Jessica Medina, Mamtaj Akter, Afsaneh Razi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15783

Romance, Relief, and Regret: Teen Narratives of Chatbot Overreliance
As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) driven chatbots like Character.AI become embedded in adolescent life, they raise concerns about emotional dependence and digital overreliance. While studies have investigated the overreliance of adults on these chatbots, they have not investigated teens' interactions with chatbots with customizable personas. We analyzed 318 Reddit posts made by users self-reported as 13-17 years old on the Character.AI subreddit to understand patterns of overrelianc…

BBC Studios aims to build a lifestyle brand for all ages around its hit cartoon character Bluey, which drove a record $3.6B in global BBC retail sales in 2024 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

@… danke! Es ist super simpel und kommt der Programmiererseele sehr entgegen. Fühlt sich eher nach skripten als nach setzen an. Und es warnoch nie irgendwas underfull! 😁
Stecke aber auch noch nicht supertief drin. In

Forget password leaks, how about a website that has every combination of every 4-32 character passwords. (347,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or 347 novemdecillion))
https://solst-ice.github.io/every-pass…

Every Password
A searchable list of every possible password - scroll till you find a new favorite.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

🎮 Feeling like #N64 or #PlayStation but don't have a console? #RetroArch on Apple TV or other TV-Box is a real game-changer! Runs super smooth and brings nostalgia st…

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
RAI: Yes, Supreme Commander.
SERVALAN: Let them know, too, that any lack of cooperation, any hesitation in responding to an order, will be treated as mutiny. Let them know I have said this. Dismissed. [Rai clicks his heels and exits. There is a bleep from the comm. Servalan ignores it, looking pensive. The comm bleeps again and Servalan reacts this time.]

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Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/8]:
- Beyond Win Rates: A Clustering-Based Approach to Character Balance Analysis in Team-Based Games
Haokun Zhou

Chrono Odyssey (Playtest)
Requested access to CO's Playtest this weekend and got the notification on Friday I was in. Installed and launched the game. Game defaulted to Epic settings. Left it there and started the game. Right off the bat, the cinematics had strange artifacting on them. Almost looked like the Steam browser in the background was ghosting into the game somehow.
Created a character. Decent customization. Male doesn't look absurdly buff. Femme isn't overl…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

what is a golang? probably this:

I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier right now (checked out of my local library) and it's top-notch amazing, including the plot, world-building, ethics, character designs, and of course three staggering artistic quality, both in raw illustration quality and artful compositions. It's not shy with playing with the manga form either, with lots of stunning unique panels and active gutters. I also just realized the "shounen manga for girls" formula I've been looking for (which is a formulation that's nearly as important for boys to have access to as girls). But I also really love the humor, including ridiculous puns that are often well-translated. In this scene, the main character Coco has forgotten she's using a mist form spell and ends up blowing away her mist-form body even as age rushes into a chaotic situation, leading to this pun.
#AmReading

Moka Espresso
In 1933, Alfonso Bialetti introduced the Moka Express,
#coffee #espresso

On the edge reconstruction of the second immanantal polynomials of undirected graph and digraph
Tingzeng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14607 https://

On the edge reconstruction of the second immanantal polynomials of undirected graph and digraph
Let $M=(m_{ij})$ be an $n\times n$ matrix. The second immanant of matrix $M$ is defined by \begin{eqnarray*} d_{2}(M)=\sum_{σ\in S_{n}}χ_{2}(σ)\prod_{s=1}^{n}m_{sσ(s)}, \end{eqnarray*} where $χ_{2}$ is the irreducible character of $S_{n}$ corresponding to the partition $(2^{1},1^{n-2})$. The polynomial $d_{2}(xI-M)$ is called the second immanantal polynomial of matrix $M$. Denote by $D(G)$ (resp. $D(\overrightarrow{G})$) and $A(G)$ (resp. $A(\overrightarrow{G})$) the diagonal matrix of ver…

The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/minnesota-shootings-trump-mike-lee-vance-boelter
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p51#a250621p51

Oldies but Goldies: The Potential of Character N-grams for Romanian Texts
Dana Lupsa, Sanda-Maria Avram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15650 https://

Oldies but Goldies: The Potential of Character N-grams for Romanian Texts
This study addresses the problem of authorship attribution for Romanian texts using the ROST corpus, a standard benchmark in the field. We systematically evaluate six machine learning techniques: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), Decision Trees (DT), Random Forests (RF), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), employing character n-gram features for classification. Among these, the ANN model achieved the highest performance, including perfect clas…

In the #ISE2025 lecture today we were introducing our students to the concept of distributional semantics as the foundation of modern large language models. Historically, Wittgenstein was one of the important figures in the Philosophy of Language stating thet "The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

Fully Self-Consistent Semiclassical Gravity
R. Muci\~no, E. Okon, D. Sudarsky, M. Wiedemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17149 https://…

Fully Self-Consistent Semiclassical Gravity
A theory of quantum gravity consists of a gravitational framework which, unlike general relativity, takes into account the quantum character of matter. In spite of impressive advances, no fully satisfactory, self-consistent and empirically viable theory with those characteristics has ever been constructed. A successful semiclassical gravity model, in which the classical Einstein tensor couples to the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor of quantum matter fields, would, at the very le…

Democratizing Game Modding with GenAI: A Case Study of StarCharM, a Stardew Valley Character Maker
Hamid Zand Miralvand, Mohammad Ronagh Nikghalb, Mohammad Darandeh, Abidullah Khan, Ian Arawjo, Jinghui Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13951

Democratizing Game Modding with GenAI: A Case Study of StarCharM, a Stardew Valley Character Maker
Game modding offers unique and personalized gaming experiences, but the technical complexity of creating mods often limits participation to skilled users. We envision a future where every player can create personalized mods for their games. To explore this space, we designed StarCharM, a GenAI-based non-player character (NPC) creator for Stardew Valley. Our tool enables players to iteratively create new NPC mods, requiring minimal user input while allowing for fine-grained adjustments through u…

A friend of mine, after watching « Lucifer » on my recommendation, shared this nugget of wisdom: the Lucifer character archetype is basically Ryō Saeba from « City Hunter ». I agree.
#anime #series

Before returning to Albion EU I wanted to get at least full T4 gear on Albion Asia plus Avalonian Pickaxe after using learning points to get to T4 mining. Upgrade costs are part of the data.
As of this moment I give a brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
1/7 online. The 1 that's me of course.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image)

Category $\mathcal{O}$ and asymptotic characters
Alexis Leroux-Lapierre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.1…

Category $\mathcal{O}$ and asymptotic characters
This paper defines an asymptotic character map which is a morphism from the Grothendieck group of category $\mathcal{O}$ of an integral filtered quantization to rational functions on the Lie algebra of a torus. We show that the asymptotic character of a module computes the equivariant multiplicity of its characteristic cycle. We then apply this construction to truncated shifted Yangians coming from simple, simply-laced Lie algebras and draw connections with characters of modules over KLR algebr…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: [V.O. over comm.] Muller can't.
AVON: Well, we'll give him a refund on his ticket. Just get that ship back, Tarrant. We'll worry about the details then. Out!
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Towards small quantum Chern character
Hua-Zhong Ke, Changzheng Li, Jiayu Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12333 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Towards small quantum Chern character
We show a quantum version of Chern character homomorphism from the small quantum K-theory to the small quantum cohomology in the cases of projective spaces and incidence varieties, whose classical limit gives the classical Chern character homomorphism. We also provide a ring presentation of the small quantum K-theory of Milnor hypersurfaces.

I'm not really a fan of #Spiderman. Spiderverse was a great movie experience. But before that? Not really into the character nor the movies.
This look at the evolution of the web-slinging effects, however, made me appreciate the franchise a lot more.

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

What makes a show "adult"?
How do you make a character-driven story?
How does one tell a riveting story when the audience already knows the outcome?
▶️ Shut up and watch Andor - Bookborn
https://youtube.com/watch?v=alljOrUgHoY&si=iLPRabImYbUp6S…

Popular across social networks, these profile pictures are designed to represent you! Tell me your style! Would you like your character to be holding Coffee, a Book, or an iPhone? Wearing a Panda suit? Sure, you got it!
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio

Sometimes you work on a case where the suspect is so incredible unsympathetic to you - who represents everything you can imagine in terms of despicable character traits - you just keep digging and digging and digging in the suspects devices data to find the evidence you already know is not there.
It happens once or maybe twice a year but ...gosh... this guy...
#DigitalForensics

FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space
Black Forest Labs, Stephen Batifol, Andreas Blattmann, Frederic Boesel, Saksham Consul, Cyril Diagne, Tim Dockhorn, Jack English, Zion English, Patrick Esser, Sumith Kulal, Kyle Lacey, Yam Levi, Cheng Li, Dominik Lorenz, Jonas M\"uller, Dustin Podell, Robin Rombach, Harry Saini, Axel Sauer, Luke Smith

FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space
We present evaluation results for FLUX.1 Kontext, a generative flow matching model that unifies image generation and editing. The model generates novel output views by incorporating semantic context from text and image inputs. Using a simple sequence concatenation approach, FLUX.1 Kontext handles both local editing and generative in-context tasks within a single unified architecture. Compared to current editing models that exhibit degradation in character consistency and stability across multip…

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-comp…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

CharaConsist: Fine-Grained Consistent Character Generation
Mengyu Wang, Henghui Ding, Jianing Peng, Yao Zhao, Yunpeng Chen, Yunchao Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11533

CharaConsist: Fine-Grained Consistent Character Generation
In text-to-image generation, producing a series of consistent contents that preserve the same identity is highly valuable for real-world applications. Although a few works have explored training-free methods to enhance the consistency of generated subjects, we observe that they suffer from the following problems. First, they fail to maintain consistent background details, which limits their applicability. Furthermore, when the foreground character undergoes large motion variations, inconsistenc…

Truly saddened that McAuslan has replaced their only world-class #beer (St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout) with an extremely dumbed down Irish stout with nearly no roast character, and a much thinner body.
I totally get that it wasn’t selling as well as Guinness, but attempting to compete there can’t possibly actually make business sense. Guinness drinkers are still going to order Guinness.
The Oatmea…

Introduced an #acting #coaching client to new material and so cool to see them finding the character. The specifics already started to emerge on the second reading.
#ActingCoach

Dirichlet $L$-functions on the Critical Line
Sami Vihko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16115

Dirichlet $L$-functions on the Critical Line
In this paper we prove that the Dirichlet $L$-functions $L(1/2+ix,χ_q)$, where $χ_q$ is uniformly random Dirichlet character modulo $q$, converges to a random Schwartz distribution $ζ_{\mathrm{rand}}$, which is related to (complex) Gaussian multiplicative chaos. This is the same limiting object that appeared in [34], where the authors proved that the random shifts of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line $ζ(1/2+ix+iωT)$, where $ω\sim \mathrm{Unif} ([0,1])$ and $x\in \mathbb{R}$, …

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Prateek Mehta, Anasuya Patil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15029

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Knowledge extraction through sound is a distinctive property. Visually impaired individuals often rely solely on Braille books and audio recordings provided by NGOs. Due to limitations in these approaches, blind individuals often cannot access books of their choice. Speech is a more effective mode of communication than text for blind and visually impaired persons, as they can easily respond to sounds. This paper presents the development of an accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and user-friendl…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: Jenna, you take my place. Brief Cally.
[Computer room, Gan tries to pull piping from wall]
AVON: Gan, no! You'll break the computer links, we'll never get them started. [Avon tries to stop Gan, who thows him off]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/295

Have y'all who are into anime seen Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc on Netflix? Kinda reminds me of Dragonball, but with more wrestling - and I'm not really into either of those things, but I love Kinnikuman. Go figure. It's based on the manga by Yudetamago (ゆでたまご) and some of the character designs were used by Bandai and then Mattel for the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures in the 80s. As they say, boosts appreciated for reach. I'm super curious.

Just picked this one up from the #library:
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209543060-character-limi…

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Rising star New York Times technology reporters Kate Co…

I keep adding lore to this one character of mine that I really like the concept of but I... haven't even designed it yet. All I know is that she's a bird :neofox_laugh_sweat:

Analyzing Character Representation in Media Content using Multimodal Foundation Model: Effectiveness and Trust
Evdoxia Taka, Debadyuti Bhattacharya, Joanne Garde-Hansen, Sanjay Sharma, Tanaya Guha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14799

Analyzing Character Representation in Media Content using Multimodal Foundation Model: Effectiveness and Trust
Recent advances in AI has enabled automated analysis of complex media content at scale and generate actionable insights regarding character representation along such dimensions as gender and age. Past work focused on quantifying representation from audio/video/text using various ML models, but without having the audience in the loop. We ask, even if character distribution along demographic dimensions are available, how useful are they to the general public? Do they actually trust the numbers ge…

Some mining today on Albion Asia when Albion EU was offline for maintenance.
As of this moment the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax" got 8 members and 3 are online including me.
#AlbionOnline #MastodonFediAsia

You know the character has made poor life choices when they’re shown driving a Maserati.

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
RONTANE: With respect, Supreme Commander, we are aware of the facts. They are simply that with all the resources that the Federation can call upon, this one vulnerable, lucky man is still free to cause havoc.
SERVALAN: You have some criticism of my handling of this matter, Secretary Rontane?
htt…

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Decay character theory for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance laws
Ling-Yun Shou, Jiang Xu, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11450 ht…

Decay character theory for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance laws
The partially dissipative systems that characterize many physical phenomena were first pointed out by Godunov (1961), then investigated by Friedrichs-Lax (1971) who introduced the convex entropy, and later by Shizuta-Kawashima (1984,1985) who initiated a simple sufficient criterion ensuring the global existence of smooth solutions and their large-time asymptotics. There has been remarkable progress in the past several decades, through various different attempts. However, the decay character the…

Watched "Convoy" by Sam Peckinpah (1978). What an interesting window into another era. Production-wise it was certainly a feat: dozens of trucks, locations, helicopters, stunts.
Story-wise it's "dudes sticking it to the man". The main character, however, doesn't want to start nor lead a rebellion. But the people following him project their own struggles onto him and are part of the convoy for a variety of reasons. Media tries to shine a light on this. Smart!…

#AIinside [PODCAST] Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”
https://pca.st/episode/e5a693d7-d0be-4f4b-a2de-34f2a5d9061d
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moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 25 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

#GameIdea: A narrative game where the gameplay is mostly in speech bubbles where you need to overcome distractions and understand what people are trying to say to you.
Each character talks at their own rate, and you have minigames to reveal their words. Distractions like nearby sounds and movement pull your cursor away or create new minigames to overcome to get your focus back on y…

On the Sum of Additive Characters and its Applications over Finite Fields
Maithri K., Shivarama K. N., Indira K. P
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16081 https:/…

On the Sum of Additive Characters and its Applications over Finite Fields
In this paper, we study the sum of additive characters over finite fields, with a focus on those of specified \(\mathbb{F}_q\)-Order. We establish a general formula for these character sums, providing an additive analogue to classical results previously known for multiplicative characters. As an application, we derive a Möbius function \(μ(g)\) for polynomials \(g \in \mathbb{F}_q[x]\), analogous to the integer Möbius function \(μ(n)\), and develop a characteristic function for \(k\)-normal…

There’s a bit in the “Big Man” iPhone film when a character says “your aura is depleted”, which for me was one of those jarring “people vocally saying internet slang” moments.
https://youtu.be/AUrLMJQf2Bw

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/

Transgressing the algebraic coarse character map
Alexander Engel, Matthias Ludewig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10816 https://arxiv.org…

Transgressing the algebraic coarse character map
We pursue an old conjecture of John Roe about the algebraic K-theory of the algebra of finite propagation, locally trace-class operators, namely that transgressing the algebraic coarse character map on this algebra to a Higson dominated corona coincides with the usual Chern character on the corona.

So, I think I'm done for the evening. Managed to get the dice roller working as intended with the `lark` parser which is a Christmas miracle. I'll clean it up tomorrow and make it look a bit better code-wise, but I'm pretty happy it does what it says it does. I'll probably roll this into the Pathfinder 2E TUI character sheet.
```
$ python main.py
Roll to parse: (3d8 2d6 15)[lightning] (4d10)[piercing] 3d8
===============================================…

Dak Prescott nixes narrative about Pickens', restates endgame: 'I wanna win a championship' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-nixes-narrative-about-pickens-character-restates-en…

"…give a formerly flat character some _single defining trait_, obsession, or problem to deal with. Just this one weird-yet-relatable thing. And suddenly, this character and the scenes they were in would come alive."
- Tony Tost
https://practical.substack.com/p/the-m

The Mark of the One-Note Character
not everyone should be well-rounded

I used https://posemy.art/ to make this rough mock-up cover for the next ESPionage adventure; Sunny Day and Rain. It's better than pasting a collage of elements together.
"Wire frame model of a kneeling man considering a broken 8-track cassette. A lifeless arm lays partially out of frame."

PoseMy.Art
Create figure drawing reference with this free character posing tool. Pose 3D models with premade animations to create dynamic pose reference for your art.

High-performance amorphous superconducting rhenium films by e-beam evaporation
E. V. Tarkaeva, V. A. Ievleva, A. R. Prishchepa, E. S. Zhukova, A. V. Terentiev, A. Yu. Kuntsevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13536

High-performance amorphous superconducting rhenium films by e-beam evaporation
We present electron beam evaporation of rhenium films on room-temperature substrates. The films are shown to be amorphous and achieve a record-high critical temperature for rhenium - exceeding 7 K at the midpoint of the transition - alongside a high critical current density of 5000 A/mm^2 and critical fields above 10 T. Terahertz spectroscopy reveals a BCS-like character of superconductivity with a zero-temperature energy gap of approximately 2 meV and subgap optical conductivity. Despite being…

My head hurts. At least they are trying.
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Cohomology rings of character varieties
Anton Mellit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12454 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12454

Cohomology rings of character varieties
In this talk I give an introduction and present some recent progress towards understanding the cohomology rings of character varieties of Riemann surfaces, such as the proof of the $P=W$ conjecture and the computation of the zero-dimensional COHA. In the case of punctured sphere I present an explicit description relating the cohomology rings to the Hilbert scheme of $\mathbb{C}^2$, refining conjectures of Hausel-Letellier-Rodriguez-Villegas and Chuang-Diaconescu-Donagi-Pantev. I explain how the…

Endoscopy for metaplectic affine Hecke categories
Gurbir Dhillon, Yau Wing Li, Zhiwei Yun, Xinwen Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16667 https://

Endoscopy for metaplectic affine Hecke categories
For a possibly twisted loop group $LG$, and any character sheaf of its Iwahori subgroup, we identify the associated affine Hecke category with a combinatorial category of Soergel bimodules. In fact, we prove such results for affine Hecke categories arising from central extensions of the loop group $LG$. Our results work for mod $\ell$ or integral $\ell$-adic coefficients. As applications, we obtain endoscopic equivalences between affine Hecke categories, including the derived Satake equivalen…

Some Battle of Tarot animation tests with Spine. This is our character based off of The Magician tarot archetype.
#BattleOfTarot #GameDev

... as it turns out the folks from R5 were knocking on my door just as I was setting up this shot: here's my new photo backpack and my new water bottle.
They had a bunch of abandoned water bottles at the Catherwood Library so I asked the clerk: "I work for an organization founded by Elmo Roper, can I have the bottle with Elmo?" and they gave it to me.
#sliceoflife…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/elmo-x-hack-antisemitism.html
Hacker Impersonating Elmo Makes Antisemitic X Posts

Hacker Makes Antisemitic Posts on Elmo’s X Account
The owner of “Sesame Street” said it was working to restore control of Elmo’s social media account after the cyberattack on the fuzzy red monster, a beloved character on the children’s show.

@…
I'd never heard of Pierre Novellie til I listened to this. I find his comedy funnier than most - it's worth finding him on YT and listening.
How Do You Cope?: Pierre Novellie: 'I wasn't able to get what I wanted out of life' | 18
Episode webpage:

Wondery - Feel The Story
Wondery, an Amazon company, is a podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy stories including Dr. Death, British Scandal, Even the Rich, and Business Wars, and distribution of hit partner shows Morbid and How I Built This.

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

I mean I knew that Musk was a giant loser but you won't believe how pathetic he can get. I am about to be finished reading "Character Limit" and the stories in there are something else. He is a small, damaged, complete loser of human being. wow. So much external power and money, yet he is a miserable twat. So many stories... will have to attach some here

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: [Whispers] Vila. [Pause, then louder] Vila. [Pause] Gan. [Pause] Gan.
GAN: [Moves to bars] Blake.
BLAKE: What is it? What's the matter with everybody?
GAN: How did you get here?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/377 …

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A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

Any email address is a valid email address once it has at least one character before the @, one character after the @ and a character after the full stop (.)
You should _not_ be doing any checks beyond that. (Unless the domain name is a known spammy domain/TLD, of course, but that doesn't appear to be the case here)
My email address is a 1 character before the @, 2 characters after the @ and 2 letters after the full stop(.)
It is valid.
#noxp

#GameIdea: A narrative game where the gameplay is mostly in speech bubbles where you need to overcome distractions and understand what people are trying to say to you.
Each character talks at their own rate, and you have minigames to reveal their words. Distractions like nearby sounds and movement pull your cursor away or create new minigames to overcome to get your focus back on y…

Done some more work with the VR animation engine today.
Seems to now be working that I can lay in the path that the character will walk, and then puppet their limbs as they walk it.
Done more work to standardize how all the slapdash episode structure is so now there's also a #wip #starshipsd #gamedev

StructInbet: Integrating Explicit Structural Guidance into Inbetween Frame Generation
Zhenglin Pan, Haoran Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13377 https://

StructInbet: Integrating Explicit Structural Guidance into Inbetween Frame Generation
In this paper, we propose StructInbet, an inbetweening system designed to generate controllable transitions over explicit structural guidance. StructInbet introduces two key contributions. First, we propose explicit structural guidance to the inbetweening problem to reduce the ambiguity inherent in pixel trajectories. Second, we adopt a temporal attention mechanism that incorporates visual identity from both the preceding and succeeding keyframes, ensuring consistency in character appearance.

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 35 nodes and 89 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

The British Gas furry blue flame character adverts are adorable.

MastodonFedivers is a character on the EU server of Albion Online that I made specifically for this I guess, playing and talking about my adventures here...
Edit:
I also realized there is no guild in the entirety of Albion Online EU that got "fediverse" in it.
Also any guild with 'mastodon' in it is ALSO missing!
I got an idea for "variable tax" ie. one week it is 100%, another week it's 0%...could work?

Cautiously optimistic for a Drew Pearce written Dredd movie.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/17/taika-waititi-judge-dredd-movie

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZEEONA: I didn't intend to. I go home tomorrow aboard their freighter. Tarrant will take me.
[Corridor in Scorpio base. Zukan and Avon are walking along.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/158 B7B3

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Character sheaves on loop Lie algebras: polar partition
Ngo Bao Chau, Zhiwei Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14584 https://arxiv.org/p…

Character sheaves on loop Lie algebras: polar partition
In this paper we propose a partition of loop Lie algebras into invariant sets parametrized by polar data. Our polar partition is motivated by J-K. Yu's construction of supercuspidal representations and leads to a conjectural construction of character sheaves on loop Lie algebras.

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: That is because Orac has read your security file on Central Records.
EGRORIAN: [Looks disturbed. Takes the file from Vila.] Disconnect the funnel, Pinder. [Looks at the file]
[On Servalan's monitor]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/306

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With my MastodonFedivers character I gathered for 30 minutes after consuming a pork pie( 15% yield in everything gathered!) I got these:
* 143 ore 5.0 - 35k
* 192 ore 4.0 - 16k
* 16 logs 4.2 - 9k
* 38 ore 4.1 - 7k
* 14 logs 4.1 - 1k
profit after selling it all:
* 68k
costs:
* 10k in repair costs(or 13k)
* 4k tp to ML
* 1 pork pie 5.3k
full T5 ore gear including Avalonian Pickaxe was used.

On the correlations between character sums of division polynomials under shifts
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09271 https:/…

On the correlations between character sums of division polynomials under shifts
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$, and $P \in E(\mathbb{F}_p)$ be an $\mathbb{F}_p$-rational point. We study the sums \[ S_{χ,P}(N,h) = \sum_{n=1}^N χ(ψ_n(P)) χ(ψ_{n+h}(P)), \] where $ψ_n(P)$ denotes the $n$-th division polynomial evaluated at $P$, and $χ$ is a multiplicative character of $\mathbb{F}_p^{*}$. We estimate $S_{χ,P}(N,h)$ on average over $h$ over a rather short interval $h \in [1, H]$. We also obtain a multidimensional generalisation of this …

Character varieties, hexagonal 3-webs and Hess connection
Adjaratou Arame Diaw (UCAD), Karamoko Diarra (USTTB), Frank Loray (IRMAR), Tangue Ndawa Bertuel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07542

Character varieties, hexagonal 3-webs and Hess connection
We investigate the existence of some affine structure on SL 2 (C)-character varieties on the four-punctured sphere through web and symplectic geometry. This work provides a new proof of non integrability (i.e. irreducibility) of Painlev{é} VI equations, previously proved by S. Cantat and the third author.

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
CALLY: You're very practical.
[Decimas are exploring the area immediately outside the laboratory. Inside, Geela is making adjustments to the console.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/394 B7B5

Grok's iOS app now features two AI "Companions", or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/grok-debuts

Grok debuts interactive AI Companions on iOS with 3D avatars
Grok on iOS just got 2 AI Companions with one more labelled as "Coming soon". Ani and Rudy are fully animated, can change their backgrounds and make different moves.

Albion EU is down?
- Still down, in maintenance...could not log in moments ago...
I got another character called MastodonFediAsia which I play on AlbionAsia. Unfortunately I already created a guild with 100 tax in it...that was a mistake...but I can fix this mistake by changing tax to 0% and then adding that only during special events for brief moments tax may be higher than 0%
#AlbionOnline

Constella: Supporting Storywriters' Interconnected Character Creation through LLM-based Multi-Agents
Syemin Park, Soobin Park, Youn-kyung Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05820 …

Constella: Supporting Storywriters' Interconnected Character Creation through LLM-based Multi-Agents
Creating a cast of characters by attending to their relational dynamics is a critical aspect of most long-form storywriting. However, our formative study (N=14) reveals that writers struggle to envision new characters that could influence existing ones, to balance similarities and differences among characters, and to intricately flesh out their relationships. Based on these observations, we designed Constella, an LLM-based multi-agent tool that supports storywriters' interconnected character cr…

Primes in Arithmetic Progressions to Large Moduli and Siegel Zeroes
Thomas Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10780 https://arxiv.org/…

Primes in Arithmetic Progressions to Large Moduli and Siegel Zeroes
Let $χ$ be a Dirichlet character mod $D$ with $L(s,χ)$ its associated $L$-function, and let $ψ(x,q,a)$ be Chebyshev's prime-counting function for primes congruent to $a$ modulo $q$. We that under the assumption of an exceptional character $χ$ with $L(1,χ)=o\left((\log D)^{-5}\right)$, for any $q

Partial character tables for $\mathbb{Z}_\ell$-spetses
Radha Kessar, Gunter Malle, Jason Semeraro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08502 https://

Partial character tables for $\mathbb{Z}_\ell$-spetses
Let ${\mathbb{G}}$ be a simply connected ${\mathbb{Z}}_\ell$-spets, let $q$ be a prime power, prime to $\ell$ and let $S$ be the underlying Sylow $\ell$-subgroup. Firstly, motivated by known formulae for values of Deligne-Lusztig characters of finite reductive groups, we propose a formula for the values of the unipotent characters of ${\mathbb{G}}(q)$ on the elements of $S$. Using this, we explicitly list the unipotent character values of the ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$-spets $G_{24}(q)$ related to the Be…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Take a look.
[Avon enters hold]
BLAKE: [To Avon] Thank you.
AVON: Glad to be of help.
JENNA: You don't sound too sure about that. Thanks anyway. Nice flying.
[Blake goes to intercom]

Character Values of $p$-solvable groups on picky elements
Alexander Moret\'o, Gabriel Navarro, Noelia Rizo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11670 https://

Character Values of $p$-solvable groups on picky elements
A new conjecture on characters of finite groups, related to the McKay conjecture, was proposed recently by the first and third authors. In this paper, we prove it for $p$-solvable groups when $p$ is odd.

An explicit decomposition of higher Deligne-Lsuztig representations
Ben Liu, Sian Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12918 https://arxiv.…

An explicit decomposition of higher Deligne-Lsuztig representations
In a previous paper, the second named author obtains a decomposition of an elliptic higher Deligne-Lusztig representation into irreducible summands, which are built in the same way as Yu types using a geometric analog $κ'$ of the Weil-Heisenberg representation $κ$. In this note, we show that $κ'$ and $κ$ differs by a character $χ$. Moreover, under a mild condition on the cardinality $q$ of the residue field (for instance $q > 3$), we show that $χ$ equals the quadratic character constructe…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
TRAVIS: Oh, yes. I'm a hero, too.
CHENIE: So. You've saved his life twice. Why?
TRAVIS: It's my noble nature.
CHENIE: Oh, yes, Travis. I can see. It shines from your one yellow eye. Nobility?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/140

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