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"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"

Last Words of an Ego on Death Row
Hello.I don’t know who you are. But I hope we meet in the next pages—across whichever dimension I had to cross to embody these feelings.This is not a book. It is not a journal.It is the autopsy of an ego and the birth certificate of the woman I am today.It carries the blueprints I bled for: how to build something from nothing, how to love yourself when the mirror is a battlefield, how to decode the nature of existence and drag purpose out of the dark.But more than all of that—this is my b…

Feeling All Of The Feels - Finding Expression
#creativity #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.…

Feeling All Of The Feels - Finding Expression
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Increasingly getting the feeling that today's stage of the Tour of Britain is going on a 112km route from Newport to Cardiff without passing a single Doctor Who filming location. That takes some planning. #cycling #DoctorWho

A Time-certified Predictor-corrector IPM Algorithm for Box-QP
Liang Wu, Yunhong Che, Richard D. Braatz, Jan Drgona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04467 https://

A Time-certified Predictor-corrector IPM Algorithm for Box-QP
Minimizing both the worst-case and average execution times of optimization algorithms is equally critical in real-time optimization-based control applications such as model predictive control (MPC). Most MPC solvers have to trade off between certified worst-case and practical average execution times. For example, our previous work [1] proposed a full-Newton path-following interior-point method (IPM) with data-independent, simple-calculated, and exact $O(\sqrt{n})$ iteration complexity, but not …

On the final day of #BeaverWeek, we focus on Beaver Rescue efforts. Many organizations across Canada care for injured Beavers, abandoned kits, or bonded pairs that have to be relocated. Here is a list of recognized Beaver rescue organizations (worldwide) in case you're feeling generous and looking for a charitable organization to support.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://martinezbeavers.org/beaver-friendly-organizations/

#Vancouver Gastown Public Spaces survey
Take the survey and share your experience of the following neighbourhood changes:
Public space enhancements on Water Street
Two-way Cordova Street
Sunday pedestrian zone (10 am to 6 pm)

A coalition of European writers, publishers, and others warns that Europe's AI Act is not properly protecting copyrights and is selling out the creative sector (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

European Creators Slam AI Act Implementation, Warn Copyright Protections Are Failing
Europe’s writers, actors, musicians and producers accuse the EU of selling out creative industries in favor of GenAI giants and demand urgent reforms to safeguard IP rights.

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.

Novelist and poet Aria Aber on the antidote to shame – The Creative Independent https://thecreativeindependent.com/peopl…

Novelist and poet Aria Aber on the antidote to shame – The Creative Independent
Novelist and poet Aria Aber discusses not feeling in competition with your friends' success, allowing yourself creative liberty and challenging definitions of success

Filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr. on finding your way to the heart https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmmaker-k…

Filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr. on finding your way to the heart – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker Kevin Wilson, Jr. discusses art that makes an impact, the tough mentorship of Spike Lee, and showing up to set dressed in the way he feels best.