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Hurricane Katrina's 20-year anniversary prompts at least seven new documentaries, as well as reflections on criticisms of the press coverage after the storm (Jon Allsop/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/hurric

Katrina and the Press, Twenty Years On
Race, climate, and the media legacy of an “unnatural” disaster.

I just read this message from @… (sharing it with her permission):
“I was just coming back with some food for my family I’m in Al-Mawasi, near the sea when suddenly, boats started firing all at once, one strike after another. I ran for 30 minutes straight, without stopping, and finally made it back to the tent terrified.
Thinking the tent would somehow shie…

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

TemMed-Bench: Evaluating Temporal Medical Image Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Junyi Zhang, Jia-Chen Gu, Wenbo Hu, Yu Zhou, Robinson Piramuthu, Nanyun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25143

TemMed-Bench: Evaluating Temporal Medical Image Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Existing medical reasoning benchmarks for vision-language models primarily focus on analyzing a patient's condition based on an image from a single visit. However, this setting deviates significantly from real-world clinical practice, where doctors typically refer to a patient's historical conditions to provide a comprehensive assessment by tracking their changes over time. In this paper, we introduce TemMed-Bench, the first benchmark designed for analyzing changes in patients' conditions betwe…

Packers' Matt LaFleur backs referees in timeout controversy: 'Of course they got it right' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6843859/2025/11/27/packers-matt-lafleur-referees-controversial-timeout/

"China announces landmark pledge to cut carbon emissions but experts say it is 'too timid'"
#China #Energy #Emissions

China announces new climate goal to cut emissions
Around 100 nations, responsible for about two-thirds of the world's emissions, gave plans or some kind of commitments to further curb fossil fuel emissions and fight climate change at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

Advancing Natural Language Formalization to First Order Logic with Fine-tuned LLMs
Felix Vossel, Till Mossakowski, Bj\"orn Gehrke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22338 https://

Advancing Natural Language Formalization to First Order Logic with Fine-tuned LLMs
Automating the translation of natural language to first-order logic (FOL) is crucial for knowledge representation and formal methods, yet remains challenging. We present a systematic evaluation of fine-tuned LLMs for this task, comparing architectures (encoder-decoder vs. decoder-only) and training strategies. Using the MALLS and Willow datasets, we explore techniques like vocabulary extension, predicate conditioning, and multilingual training, introducing metrics for exact match, logical equiv…

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“My body is here, but my soul never left the place that once held my laughter, my silence, my peace.
I miss the warmth of my home — the sunlight spilling through familiar windows, and the small joys I once took for granted: quiet mornings, fleeting smiles, the fragile moments that made life whole.”
– @…

Every morning, the wind circles my tent like a restless ghost, tearing me from...
My body is here, but my soul never left the place that once held my laughter, my silence, my peace. I miss the warmth of my home — the sunlight spilling through familiar windows, and the small joys I once took for granted: quiet mornings, fleeting smiles, the fragile moments that made life whole. Each gust of wind reminds me of what we lost, and each night the cold carves its way into my bones, as if searching for the warmth it once knew. Yet ...

Folks, just a heads up, I’ve closed new verification sign ups on Gaza Verified for about two weeks.
We will restart scheduling folks for calls on November 14th with calls to resume on November 17th.
We’ve taken this decision to allow @… (who, as you know, is herself being forced to endure Israel’s genocide in gaza) and me time to tend to the peopl…

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