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How leaders of the MAHA movement benefit from anti-science advocacy and promise profits to industry | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/how-leaders-of-the-maha-movement-benefit-from-anti-science-advocacy-and-promise-profits-to-industry

After reading #keyboard layout for fun.
Of course, not so I could "type faster". And that's for two reasons:
1. To type faster, you have to learn the right hand and finger positions, etc. I know my habits ain't perfect, and I don't see a point in learning otherwise — see point two.
2. At least in my case of creative writing, blunt typing speed isn't the bottleneck; figuring out what to write is. And most of my corrections aren't typos, but changes of thought.
In this case, I've figured out that there's really no point in learning touch typing with a new layout. So the most obvious choice for trying one is to use it on a touchscreen, where I could change the visible layout with no effort.
But then, I've started wondering: I mostly use gesture typing, and I've noticed that it's much easier when the letters constituting the word in question are spread across keyboard, rather than close to one another. In the latter case, the keyboard often has trouble in recognizing the correct word. If the ergonomic layouts focus on putting frequent letters close to one another, wouldn't gesture typing be harder?
And indeed, Colemak's FAQ clearly states that it's not recommended for smartphones. It's kinda curious that after so many years of #QWERTY being criticized, a new technology turns out to benefit from precisely this layout.
https://colemak.com/FAQ#Is_Colemak_suitable_for_smartphones.3F

A growing number of GOP lawmakers are voicing frustrations with their leadership
for prolonging the House recess,
warning that the optics surrounding that inactivity could backfire on the party to the benefit of Democrats.
The rumbling is creating a headache for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team,
who have made canceling votes a central part of the Republicans’ shutdown strategy.
In doing so, they’re betting that an empty House will pile press…

LadderSym: A Multimodal Interleaved Transformer for Music Practice Error Detection
Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou, Purvish Jajal, Nick John Eliopoulos, James C. Davis, George K. Thiruvathukal, Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, Yung-Hsiang Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08580

LadderSym: A Multimodal Interleaved Transformer for Music Practice Error Detection
Music learners can greatly benefit from tools that accurately detect errors in their practice. Existing approaches typically compare audio recordings to music scores using heuristics or learnable models. This paper introduces \textit{LadderSym}, a novel Transformer-based method for music error detection. \textit{LadderSym} is guided by two key observations about the state-of-the-art approaches: (1) late fusion limits inter-stream alignment and cross-modality comparison capability; and (2) relia…

Benefits and Limitations of Using GenAI for Political Education and Municipal Elections
Raphael Fischer, Youssef Abdelrahim, Katharina Poitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11749 htt…

Benefits and Limitations of Using GenAI for Political Education and Municipal Elections
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) presents both challenges and opportunities across all areas of education. Facing the municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Young AI Leaders in Dortmund asked themselves: Could GenAI be used to make political programs more accessible, in order to facilitate political education? To explore respective potentials and limitations, we therefore performed an experimental study that combines different GenAI approaches. Language models were used to…

Faith leaders join Democrats to decry health care cuts, expiring SNAP benefits
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/30/faith-leaders-join-democrats-to-decry-healthcare-cuts-expiring-snap-benefits/

To my way of thinking it is better to starve a mad dog than to feed it.
If this shutdown slows down the destruction being caused by the maga-klan then the hurt we will feel from the shutdown will be more than repaid by the retardation of our rapid descent into fascism, inflation, and international irrelevance.

Shutdown nears as congressional leaders meet with Trump
Democratic congressional leaders have left a White House meeting without a deal with President Donald Trump and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown. Trump is making it clear he has no intention to negotiate on Democrats’ current terms. Democrats are insisting on action to extend health care benefits, but Republicans are refusing to compromise. If government funding legislation is not passed by Congress and signed by Trump on Tuesday night, many government offices will be temporarily sh…

Last year, the museum launched its student guide program, an opportunity for #UniversityOfGeorgia students to build research, leadership and public speaking skills. We talked to Alexis Gorby, who runs the program, about how it came together and how it benefits students in all majors.

After the 2020 Alameda fire that that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in southern Oregon, locals, Tribal leaders, and restoration experts uncovered—and revived—a network of hidden springs.
From The Oregonian
via Sightline
https://sig…

Oregon’s Miracle Mile: How a devastating wildfire led to environmental restoration
A wildfire burned away invasive blackberry bushes and revealed 16 streams that benefit wildlife.

Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month: DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-goes-to-scotus-to-try