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Cowboys' highest-graded players for Week 2 prove offseason was major success https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-highest-graded-players-week-2-offseason-major-success

China Wants Foreign Scientists.
The Public Says No, Thanks.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates,
a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond
https://www.

China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond.

Coffee was so super tasty and awesome, that I'm having another one
#coffee #gratitude

"Conventionally, the output of an AI is graded in a binary way, rewarding it when it gives a correct response and penalizing it when it gives an incorrect one.
In simple terms, in other words, guessing is rewarded — because it might be right — over an AI admitting it doesn't know the answer, which will be graded as incorrect no matter what.
As a result, through "natural statistical pressures," LLMs are far more prone to hallucinate an answer instead of "ac…

CfP UChicago's 23rd Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-42 on Selverstone, _The Kennedy Withdrawal_ H-Diplo |…
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On the semi-infinite cohomology of graded-unitary vertex algebras
Christopher Beem, Niklas Garner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10364 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On the semi-infinite cohomology of graded-unitary vertex algebras
Recently, the first author with A. Ardehali, M. Lemos, and L. Rastelli introduced the notion of graded unitarity for vertex algebras. This generalization of unitarity is motivated by the SCFT/VOA correspondence and introduces a novel Hilbert space structure on the state space of a large class of vertex algebras that are not unitary in the conventional sense. In this paper, we study the relative semi-infinite cohomology of graded-unitary vertex algebras that admit a chiral quantum moment map for…

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

“By the time I graduated high school, I had decided to be a minister,” Scott ’62 B.D. says. “At that time, to me, serving God was the number one thing in life.”
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2025-09-04-a-season-for-eve…

Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-trained-israeli-soldiers-fighting-in-gaza/

Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza
Exclusive: Declassified has obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. We’re publishing it for the first time.

Considering seminary or divinity school? We are having an open house for prospective students on October 27, and you're invited. Join us and learn about our offerings, meet faculty, staff, and students, and gain an insider's perspective on YDS.
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