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Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ...
who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ...
either left government or were reassigned or removed.
https://skywriter.b…

A short note on the Massicot-Wagner method
Arturo Rodr\'iguez Fanlo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17904

A short note on the Massicot-Wagner method
We provide a general abstract statement of the Massicot-Wagner method: our main result is an assymetric version (i.e. a version for group actions) of the recursive Massicot-Wagner argument.

Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First #PalomarSkySurvey / Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3 -> Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations: https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 -> summary of why these papers are doubtful: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1980690132543107204 - links to deep discussions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Mazzy Star:
🎵 Lay Myself Down
#MazzyStar
https://open.spotify.com/track/48Dmar166f9xoaRay4jVNf

Every so often I'm reminded how bloody difficult it is to come and live in this country.
We were due an electrician to visit today but earlier he messaged my wife to say he couldn't make it and could he instead come "around tea time tomorrow".
My wife, who did not grow up in this country, asked me "when is tea time?" to which I replied "probably about 4-ish".
So then she said "But I thought tea time meant lunch time" and then the conversation went that although dinner time might mean lunch time and supper time might mean dinner time, tea time is always tea time even though it's highly unlikely anyone would be drinking tea. Unless it's afternoon tea which can be at any time but is definitely not tea time.
Bloody hell England, you don't make it easy do you!

USTR Proposes Additional Tariffs of Up to 100% on Nicaragua (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-20/ustr-proposes-additional-tariffs-of-up-to-100-on-nicaragua-mgzo3cdq
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p127#a251020p127

Heute debattiert der Nationalrat über die gefährliche SVP-Kündigungsinitiative – auch bekannt als «10-Millionen-Schweiz-Initiative». Ich engagiere mich schon jetzt für eine starke Nein-Kampagne. Machst du mit? https://nein-pro-minute.ch

Jede SVP-Rede stärkt unser Nein: Jetzt spenden!
Ab heute debattiert der Nationalrat über die gefährliche SVP-Kündigungsinitiative. Je länger die SVP redet, desto mehr Geld sammeln wir.

SMSL PO100 Pro
Dieser kleine Kerl bringt erstaunliche Klangverbesserungen an meinen aktiven Lautsprechern zustande. Gebe ich den Musikstream direkt per USB in die Aktivlautsprecher, ist der Sound eher mäßig. Der DDC scheint das USB Signal zu „reinigen“ und zu reclocken. Dann wird es per S/PDIF Coax oder optisch an den DAC der Lautsprecher gegeben. Das Ergebnis ist eine erstaunliche Verbesserung der Soundqualität.
Highly recommended.

Confidence-gated training for efficient early-exit neural networks
Saad Mokssit, Ouassim Karrakchou, Alejandro Mousist, Mounir Ghogho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17885 https://…

Confidence-gated training for efficient early-exit neural networks
Early-exit neural networks reduce inference cost by enabling confident predictions at intermediate layers. However, joint training often leads to gradient interference, with deeper classifiers dominating optimization. We propose Confidence-Gated Training (CGT), a paradigm that conditionally propagates gradients from deeper exits only when preceding exits fail. This encourages shallow classifiers to act as primary decision points while reserving deeper layers for harder inputs. By aligning train…