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I have some thoughts on the role of art in our lives, in society, and in evolution. https://filmschoolteacher.info/fredsnotes/2026/02/10/some-notes-on-the-role-of-art/

The race for the next mayor of Los Angeles has become even more intense as
Council Member Nithya Raman officially launched her campaign on Saturday.
Her announcement came just hours before the city’s filing deadline.
Nithya Raman said Los Angeles needs a leader who will take full responsibility for the challenges the city faces.
Raman represents District 4, which stretches from parts of the San Fernando Valley to neighborhoods like Los Feliz, the Hollywood Hills, and…

Who Is Nithya Raman? Meet The Latest Candidate In Los Angeles Mayor’s Race
Nithya Raman has officially joined the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race just before the filing deadline. She brings experience in homelessness, housing, and community planning.

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Trump 'Had a Feeling, Based on Fact,' That There Was an Imminent Iran Threat, White House Says (Violet Jira/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/donald-trump-feeling-imminent-threat-iran-karoline-leavitt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p118#a260304p118

Hell yes
https://ground.news/article/progressive-candidate-launches-last-minute-challenge-to-karen-bass-for-la-mayor_2545d5

Progressive candidate launches last-minute challenge to Karen Bass for LA mayor
Progressive Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman (D) on Saturday made a last-minute bid to challenge Mayor Karen Bass (D) in the June primary election. Raman made the announcement hours before the 12 p.m. filing deadline for candidates be on the ballot. She praised Bass in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, calling the mayor “an icon” but said the city needs someone who will tackle its problems.

USA anno 2026
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note
'As soon as organizers saw the bottles flying through the air, they rushed to grab them. It was a race between the vigil attendees and the CoreCivic security truck operated by detention facility staff. The vigil attendees won this time, securing the bottles and the precious, uncensored information inside.'

I would have written the following headline rather differently:
Original: "Top National Symphony Leader Quits in New Blow to Kennedy Center"
My rewrite: "Top National Symphony Leader Takes Notes"

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…