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Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-ariel-courage-on-ne…

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished – The Creative Independent
Author Ariel Courage discusses hyper-individualism, MFAs, and writing as a social act.

Gary White, the #Buffalo custom hatter who made hats for Indiana Jones, The Untouchables, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and other films (and two for me), has died:
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Hats Off to Gary White, who Outfitted the stars with Custom Hats for Upwards of 50 Years - Buffalo Rising
Buffalo’s legendary custom hatter, Gary White, has passed away. White, who made hats for upwards of 50 years, was widely known for creating spec hats for the film industry, including notable films such as Dick Tracy, The Untouchables, Tombstone, and Indiana Jones. In a world where the art of making custom hats is becoming more and more obscure, Buffalo was certainly lucky to have Gary and his business – The Custom Hatter – around for so long. For decades, Gary

If there are any Discworld art fans out there: Modiphius just uploaded a 5,000px × 3,620px almost uncompressed version of Paul Kidby's Massive Massiv to their CDN to show it on the product page of Discworld RPG: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork
Full scale:
https://i.shgcdn.com/92e00660-f1d9-4e9

After being many years late to the Blasphemous party, I am now falling in love with it. I took the right path: reaching Mercy Dreams after Albero, and not heading to a snowy area that causes many newcomers to quit.
The game art is AMAZING.
#SharanLog #Blasphemous

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Pietro Buzzega, Riccardo Salami, Angelo Porrello, Simone Calderara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21421 https://

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Fine-tuning pretrained models has become a standard pathway to achieve state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of domains, leading to a proliferation of task-specific model variants. As the number of such specialized modules in-creases, merging them into a unified model without retraining has become a critical challenge. Existing merging techniques often rely on interference heuristics,importance weighting, or activation matching while treating each layer independently, thereby failing…

Edge-colouring and orientations: applications to degree-boundedness and $\chi$-boundedness
Arnab Char, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23054

Edge-colouring and orientations: applications to degree-boundedness and $χ$-boundedness
We prove that every $2$-edge-coloured graph with sufficiently large minimum degree contains a monochromatic induced subgraph whose minimum degree remains large. As a consequence, we deduce that some classes of graphs are degree-bounded. A class $\mathcal{G}$ is {\it degree-bounded} if, for every integer $s$, there exists $d=d(s)$ such that every graph $G\in \mathcal{G}$ either contains $K_{s,s}$ or has minimum degree at most $d$. We obtain that the following classes are degree-bounded: (i) fo…

Marsha P. Johnson has become an icon of gay, trans, and queer liberation,
and yet little is known about her life beyond her participation in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and the decades long controversy after her lifeless body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992.
In "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson",
Tourmaline, an award-winning Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist who has dedicated her life to uplifting Marsha P. Johnson’s l…

What We Can Learn From the Defiant Life and Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson
Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

Designer Meg Lewis on separating who you're told to be from who you really are – The Creative Independent https://thecreat…

Designer Meg Lewis on separating who you're told to be from who you really are – The Creative Independent
Designer Meg Lewis discusses following what's enjoyable, leaving doors open to possibility, and recapturing the impulsive creativity of childhood.

i recently left fedi for a bit cause i was feeling like shit and unable to do anything but spread that energy, and during that time i cobbled this together off a few loosely connected notes and thoughts for an unreleased project of mine. i dislike it but dont really know what to do about that anymore, so here u go. all words treasured.
#art

Dynamic film thickness measurement in a rolling bearing using numerical elastohydrodynamic-acoustic modelling to interpret reflected ultrasound data
Pan Dou, Yayu Li, Suhaib Ardah, Tonghai Wu, Min Yu, Tom Reddyhoff, Yaguo Lei, Daniele Dini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22618

Dynamic film thickness measurement in a rolling bearing using numerical elastohydrodynamic-acoustic modelling to interpret reflected ultrasound data
The thickness of the lubricating film plays a vital role in the operational efficiency and reliability of rolling bearings. Ultrasonic reflection techniques offer a promising non-invasive approach for in situ evaluation of lubricant films.However, accurately identifying the central film thickness remains challenging due to several complex factors, including dynamic fluctuations, localized elastic deformation, cavitation effects, and variations in oil supply. This study presents a comprehensive …