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Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany,
collectively known as the E3,
following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran,
the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
In a statement, the ministry condemned E3's decision
to trigger the "snapback" mechanism as "irresponsible,"
adding that the ambassadors were summoned to Tehran for consultations

Iran recalls Ambassadors to France, Britain, Germany
Tehran: Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany, collectively known as the E3, following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran, the...

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20123702/spirits-stacks-ghostly-tour-congregational-library-archives

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed northbound for a night
Closure necessary for repaving work near bridge deck in New Westminster
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic travelling northbound into New Westminster for one night, due to construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closure will take place overnight on the following date:
Thursday, October 30 (9 pm to 5am)
Southbound travel into Surrey & nb peds…

Faster Inference of Cell Complexes from Flows via Matrix Factorization
Til Spreuer, Josef Hoppe, Michael T. Schaub
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21372 https://

Faster Inference of Cell Complexes from Flows via Matrix Factorization
We consider the following inference problem: Given a set of edge-flow signals observed on a graph, lift the graph to a cell complex, such that the observed edge-flow signals can be represented as a sparse combination of gradient and curl flows on the cell complex. Specifically, we aim to augment the observed graph by a set of 2-cells (polygons encircled by closed, non-intersecting paths), such that the eigenvectors of the Hodge Laplacian of the associated cell complex provide a sparse, interpre…

Stochastic dynamics on evolving geometric graphs
Alexei Daletskii, Dmitri Finkelshtein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25427 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25427

Stochastic dynamics on evolving geometric graphs
We consider an infinite locally finite system (configuration) $γ$ of particles distributed over a Euclidean space $X$. Each particle located at $x\in X$ carries an internal parameter (mark, or ``spin'') $σ_{x}\in S=\mathbb{R}.$ Such collections of particles form the space of marked configurations $Γ(X,S)$. We construct the following stochastic dynamics in $Γ(X,S)$: while the configuration $γ$ of particle positions performs a random evolution, the corresponding marks interact with each othe…

In other news: I successfully ripped my CD collection and put them on a USB stick so I can finally use them in my car. I don't have that many yet, it was only about 20 discs.
There is a strange feeling of properness when you're listening to music that you physically own. Even more so if you know that the signal you're hearing was actually physically read off the disc in your room.
Buy used CDs guys. They're cheap. It's fun.

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
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Rutgers Global Affairs Conference now VIRTUAL - new CFP deadline Rutgers University…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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

i do fedi by just putting shit into drafts and firing one im feeling off before i start disliking it again. scrolling thru my large collection, i feel like its too easy to tell which clumps of drafts i was manic during lol