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What you truly need to vibe and thrive is simple, some good food to nourish your body, clean water to keep your spirit flowing, a little movement to keep the energy dancing, and a cozy spot to rest your head. When you’re living in community, sharing the love and looking out for each other, all that falls beautifully into place.
What you don’t need is a giant screen flashing noise at you, the newest shiny gadgets or games, or getting caught up in the endless swirl of political drama. Re…

MSRepaint: Multiple Sclerosis Repaint with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model for Bidirectional Lesion Filling and Synthesis
Jinwei Zhang, Lianrui Zuo, Yihao Liu, Hang Zhang, Samuel W. Remedios, Bennett A. Landman, Peter A. Calabresi, Shiv Saidha, Scott D. Newsome, Dzung L. Pham, Jerry L. Prince, Ellen M. Mowry, Aaron Carass
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MSRepaint: Multiple Sclerosis Repaint with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model for Bidirectional Lesion Filling and Synthesis
In multiple sclerosis, lesions interfere with automated magnetic resonance imaging analyses such as brain parcellation and deformable registration, while lesion segmentation models are hindered by the limited availability of annotated training data. To address both issues, we propose MSRepaint, a unified diffusion-based generative model for bidirectional lesion filling and synthesis that restores anatomical continuity for downstream analyses and augments segmentation through realistic data gene…

Boston's GBH launches a $225M fundraising campaign to sustain its operations over the next three years following the end of federal funding for public media (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)
https://dankennedy.net/2025/10/01/gbh-anno…

GBH announces $225 million fundraising initiative to offset government cuts
Today marks the end of government funding for public media, and Boston’s GBH is announcing a major fundraising initiative to fill the gap. Susan Goldberg, the operation’s president and …

Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities
Takuo Matsubara, Andrew Duncan, Simon Cotter, Konstantinos Zygalakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01437 ht…

Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities
We introduce bandit importance sampling (BIS), a new class of importance sampling methods designed for settings where the target density is expensive to evaluate. In contrast to adaptive importance sampling, which optimises a proposal distribution, BIS directly designs the samples through a sequential strategy that combines space-filling designs with multi-armed bandits. Our method leverages Gaussian process surrogates to guide sample selection, enabling efficient exploration of the parameter s…

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

UK State, dancing to Garage's agenda, announces yet more cruelty to people fleeing persecution.
Families of those granted asylum will face
tougher English language standards and a test of financial resources.
Imagine doing that during the Uganda or Kosovo emergencies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…

UK to tighten family member rules for asylum cases
Yvette Cooper will outline her plans when MPs return to Parliament after the summer break.

Novel diamagnetic garnet-type substrate single crystals for ultralow-damping yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe5O12 films at cryogenic temperatures
C. Guguschev, C. Dubs, R. Blukis, O. Surzhenko, M. Br\"utzam, R. Koc, C. Rhode, K. Berger, C. Richter, C. Berryman, R. O. Serha, A. V. Chumak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18101

Novel diamagnetic garnet-type substrate single crystals for ultralow-damping yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe5O12 films at cryogenic temperatures
Y3Sc2Ga3O12-Y3Sc2Al3O12 and Y3Sc2Ga3O12-Y3Al5O12 (YSGAG) solid solution single crystals with diameters up to 30 mm and total lengths up to about 100 mm were grown by the conventional Czochralski technique. Rocking curve measurements on polished sections revealed typical FWHM values of about 22 arcsec, which is indicative of relatively high structural quality for a solid-solution crystal. The grown substrate crystals are nearly lattice-matched with Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) to allow epitaxial growth of hig…

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction
Qihang Zhao, Xiaoyang Zheng, Ben Chen, Zhongbo Sun, Chenyi Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19876

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction
User behavior sequences in search systems resemble "interest fossils", capturing genuine intent yet eroded by exposure bias, category drift, and contextual noise. Current methods predominantly follow an "identify-aggregate" paradigm, assuming sequences immutably reflect user preferences while overlooking the organic entanglement of noise and genuine interest. Moreover, they output static, context-agnostic representations, failing to adapt to dynamic intent shifts under varying Query-User-Item-C…

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Then you should vote to make this real:
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Germany charges man over cyberattack on Rosneft subsidiary https://therecord.media/germany-charges-cyberattack-rosneft