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Just Bob ♒🇺🇲🪖🐧<p>By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:</p><p>Section 1. Purpose and Policy. <a href="https://beamship.mpaq.org/tags/Endemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Endemic</span></a> <a href="https://beamship.mpaq.org/tags/vagrancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vagrancy</span></a>, <a href="https://beamship.mpaq.org/tags/disorderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disorderly</span></a> <a href="https://beamship.mpaq.org/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>behavior</span></a>, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during the last year of the previous administration -- 274,224-- was the highest ever recorded. The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental health condition, or both. Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes. An equally large share of homeless individuals reported suffering from mental health conditions. The Federal Government and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other citizens vulnerable to public safety threats.</p><p>Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.</p><p>Sec. 2. Restoring Civil Commitment. (a) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:</p><p>(i) seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time; and</p><p>(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification, adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment, and "step-down" treatment standards that allow for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.</p><p>Sec. 3. Fighting Vagrancy on America's Streets. (a) The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall take immediate steps to assess their discretionary grant programs and determine whether priority for those grants may be given to grantees in States and municipalities that actively meet the below criteria, to the maximum extent permitted by law:</p><p>(i) enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use;</p><p>(ii) enforce prohibitions on urban camping and loitering;</p><p>(iii) enforce prohibitions on urban squatting;</p><p>(iv) enforce, and where necessary, adopt, standards that address individuals who are a danger to themselves or others and suffer from serious mental illness or substance use disorder, or who are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves, through assisted outpatient treatment or by moving them into treatment centers or other appropriate facilities via civil commitment or other available means, to the maximum extent permitted by law; or</p><p>(v) substantially implement and comply with, to the extent required, the registration and notification obligations of the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act, particularly in the case of registered sex offenders with no fixed address, including by adequately mapping and checking the location of homeless sex offenders.</p><p>(b) The Attorney General shall:</p><p>(i) ensure that homeless individuals arrested for Federal crimes are evaluated, consistent with 18 U.S.C. 4248, to determine whether they are sexually dangerous persons and certified accordingly for civil commitment;</p><p>(ii) take all necessary steps to ensure the availability of funds under the Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to support, as consistent with 34 U.S.C. 50101 et seq., encampment removal efforts in areas for which public safety is at risk and State and local resources are inadequate;</p><p>(iii) assess Federal resources to determine whether they may be directed toward ensuring, to the extent permitted by law, that detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of a lack of forensic bed capacity at appropriate local, State, and Federal jails or hospitals; and</p><p>(iv) enhance requirements that prisons and residential reentry centers that are under the authority of the Attorney General or receive funding from the Attorney General require in-custody housing release plans and, to the maximum extent practicable, require individuals to comply.</p><p>1/3 🧵</p>
Björn Brembs<p>Now, Nicola Clayton</p><p><a href="https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22@cam.ac.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22</span><span class="invisible">@cam.ac.uk</span></a></p><p>talking about memory, mental time travel and some magic at the CogEvo workshop.</p><p><a href="https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">event.unitn.it/cogevo/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>behavior</span></a></p>
Sarah Lea<p>Reinforcement Learning starts with a simple but powerful idea:<br>Trial &amp; Error. Learning what works.</p><p>The Multi-Armed Bandit problem is a first step into this world.<br>It's not just about slot machines. Iit's about how AI (and humans) learn to choose.</p><p><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/simple-guide-to-multi-armed-bandits-a-key-concept-before-reinforcement-learning/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">towardsdatascience.com/simple-</span><span class="invisible">guide-to-multi-armed-bandits-a-key-concept-before-reinforcement-learning/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReinforcementLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReinforcementLearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CognitiveScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveScience</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Behavior</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DecisionMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DecisionMaking</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bandits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bandits</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datascience</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/datascientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datascientist</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>U.N. rapporteur calls for global action to stop ‘genocide’ in Gaza <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1197745/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1197745/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>behavior</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colombia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conflicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Government</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/group" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>group</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LastYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LastYear</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.n.Rapporteur <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a></p>
Sarah Lea<p>Do you always go to the same café? Or do you try something new?</p><p>That’s the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma: Decision under uncertainty.</p><p>Multi-armed bandits model exactly that.</p><p>And this dilemma shows up everywhere: Recommender systems, A/B tests, online ads, even in human psychology.</p><p>Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman called this one of the most fundamental cognitive patterns.</p><p>I explain what it is, why it matters, and how AI systems handle it. 🎰</p><p>:blobcoffee: Full article here: <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/simple-guide-to-multi-armed-bandits-a-key-concept-before-reinforcement-learning/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">towardsdatascience.com/simple-</span><span class="invisible">guide-to-multi-armed-bandits-a-key-concept-before-reinforcement-learning/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ReinforcementLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReinforcementLearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CognitiveScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveScience</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Kahneman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kahneman</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Behavior</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DecisionMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DecisionMaking</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bandits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bandits</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datascience</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/datascientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datascientist</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p>(2/x) While demand-side actions tend to focus on consumer <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23behavior" target="_blank">#behavior</a>, the economic &amp; regulatory environment will need to evolve substantially to unlock technological <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23innovation" target="_blank">#innovation</a> and the changes in choice infrastructure necessary to shift <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23consumers" target="_blank">#consumers</a> behavior… <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101351" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">doi.org/10.1016/j.on...</a></p>

"We’re all adult people, we don’t need a kindergarten teacher who’s lecturing us on how to get along with each other." 📖 Great call by Enrico Weigelt! - Read: Code of Conduct. A fascist-like instrument of political power, ready for abuse. "We don’t need it." - I love it. ❤️ #coc #codeofconduct #dei #fascism #power #abuse #professional #behavior #freesoftware #opensource #xlibre felipec.wordpress.com/2025/06/

Felipe Contreras · Meet Enrico Weigelt, the maintainer of the new XLibre forkI ask Enrico Weigelt — the maintainer of the new XLibre fork — a couple of questions about the status and future of Xorg/XLibre.

What could be the next great school of thought. A commingling of:

- ecology
- Space and Place
- Behavioral Studies

I would even say such a commingling would supersede what has been my primary preoccupation, Violence Studies. The above could rise above that and lead the way.

It would be the new ontology. It would not even require Marx inspired sociology.

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @Daojoan

This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of collected metrics and then changing their behaviors on auto-pilot to improve said metrics — without ever asking themselves if the data collected actually represents answers to the right (or even important) questions...

Metrics always invite comparison & competition — on a global scale — often without considering our own subjective contexts/needs/limits/aims...

Does the number of copilot prompts per day on a CTO dashboard indicate a highly productive developer or does a big fat zero merely show a different approach to problem solving?

Does the lack of constant updates to a FLOSS project mean it's become neglected/unusable or does it simply indicate it reached a level of stability?

Likewise, does my product/app need constant UI changes/updates to "streamline" user experience (often without even consulting users) based on some "goal" metrics?

Am I seen as an unproductive FLOSS developer if my public commit log doesn't show daily updates? Do gaps indicate laziness, illness, deep thinking or work on other projects? Like gaps in a CV, will these gaps of activity data hinder future employment chances or would I even want to work with orgs who select on this criteria?

Is a hike only good/better because it exceeds X kilometers or Y elevation meters? How does one measure the stunning views or the quality of the company which shared that experience?

joanwestenberg.com/why-i-gave-

Westenberg. · Why I Gave Up My SmartwatchSomewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

I’m going to write about this… Any thoughts? OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."

“Friends and family are watching in alarm as users insist they've been chosen to fulfill sacred missions on behalf of sentient AI or nonexistent cosmic powerse — chatbot behavior that's just mirroring and worsening existing mental health issues, but at incredible scale and without the scrutiny of regulators or experts.” #CyberPsychosis #AI #ChatBots #psychology #Behavior

Source: Futurism share.google/5gbEHBdr0SQiso6bv

Futurism · Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre DelusionsBy Victor Tangermann