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Jets file countersuit vs. ex-exec, allege conspiracy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46523087/jets-file-countersuit-vs-ex-exec-allege-unlawful-conspiracy

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How eating insects became a conspiracy theory
Insect protein is healthy and sustainable. But now it is also at the centre of a far-reaching conspiracy theory.

Quantifying the Accuracy-Interpretability Trade-Off in Concept-Based Sidechannel Models
David Debot, Giuseppe Marra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05670 https://

Quantifying the Accuracy-Interpretability Trade-Off in Concept-Based Sidechannel Models
Concept Bottleneck Models (CBNMs) are deep learning models that provide interpretability by enforcing a bottleneck layer where predictions are based exclusively on human-understandable concepts. However, this constraint also restricts information flow and often results in reduced predictive accuracy. Concept Sidechannel Models (CSMs) address this limitation by introducing a sidechannel that bypasses the bottleneck and carry additional task-relevant information. While this improves accuracy, it …

CURE: Controlled Unlearning for Robust Embeddings -- Mitigating Conceptual Shortcuts in Pre-Trained Language Models
Aysenur Kocak, Shuo Yang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05230

CURE: Controlled Unlearning for Robust Embeddings -- Mitigating Conceptual Shortcuts in Pre-Trained Language Models
Pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications but remain susceptible to spurious, concept-driven correlations that impair robustness and fairness. In this work, we introduce CURE, a novel and lightweight framework that systematically disentangles and suppresses conceptual shortcuts while preserving essential content information. Our method first extracts concept-irrelevant representations via a dedicated content extractor reinforced by a reversal netwo…

"Meat is macho: Why masculinity concepts get in the way of green initiatives to cut meat and dairy consumption"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Food

Meat is macho: Why masculinity concepts get in the way of green initiatives to cut meat and dairy consumption
A new study shows that traditional masculine norms are a significant barrier preventing men from reducing their meat and dairy consumption, and recommends how to better appeal to men to change their dietary ways to mitigate damage to the environment from animal agriculture.

Towards Ontology-Based Descriptions of Conversations with Qualitatively-Defined Concepts
Barbara Gendron (LORIA, UL), Ga\"el Guibon (LIPN, LORIA), Mathieu D'aquin (LORIA, UL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04926

Towards Ontology-Based Descriptions of Conversations with Qualitatively-Defined Concepts
The controllability of Large Language Models (LLMs) when used as conversational agents is a key challenge, particularly to ensure predictable and user-personalized responses. This work proposes an ontology-based approach to formally define conversational features that are typically qualitative in nature. By leveraging a set of linguistic descriptors, we derive quantitative definitions for qualitatively-defined concepts, enabling their integration into an ontology for reasoning and consistency c…

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A profile of TrueAnon, a left-leaning true-crime podcast exploring topics liberals often avoid, now among Patreon's top five podcasts with 40K paid subscribers (Nathan Taylor Pemberton/New York Times)
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‘TrueAnon,’ the Lefty Podcast, Takes Listeners Down Rabbit Holes
On the left-leaning podcast “TrueAnon,” three friends take a true-crime approach to subjects often thought too risky for liberals to touch.

🦇 Mercedes’ New Concept Car Looks Straight Out of ’90s Batman Cartoons
https://www.thedrive.com/news/mercedes-new-concept-car-looks-straight-out-of-90s-batman-cartoons

Mercedes’ New Concept Car Looks Straight Out of ’90s Batman Cartoons
Mercedes' new concept car can drive itself and even has solar paint—but the coolest thing about it is that it looks like an old-school Batmobile.

Generative Dynamic Graph Representation Learning for Conspiracy Spoofing Detection
Sheng Xiang, Yidong Jiang, Yunting Chen, Dawei Cheng, Guoping Zhao, Changjun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05562

Generative Dynamic Graph Representation Learning for Conspiracy Spoofing Detection
Spoofing detection in financial trading is crucial, especially for identifying complex behaviors such as conspiracy spoofing. Traditional machine-learning approaches primarily focus on isolated node features, often overlooking the broader context of interconnected nodes. Graph-based techniques, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have advanced the field by leveraging relational information effectively. However, in real-world spoofing detection datasets, trading behaviors exhibit dynamic,…