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Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community …

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

California Central Coast elected officials, nonprofit organizers, and immigrant rights advocates are preparing for an incoming increase in immigration enforcement
following recent developments at the federal level, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift restrictions in the region,
and billions of dollars that will soon be available to fund more detention centers, officers, and ICE enforcement operations.
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administrati…

Central Coast Leaders Prepare for Surge in Federal Immigration Response
Elected officials and organizers are speaking out against the incoming increase in enforcement and ICE funding.

Related to my last boost, still annoyed this DID NOT make it into WCAG 2.2:
3.2.7 Hidden Controls (Level AA): Controls needed to progress or complete a process are visible at the time they are needed without requiring pointer hover or keyboard focus, or a mechanism is available to make them persistently visible.
https://www.…

How Australian men's lifestyle publisher Man of Many is countering a decline in Google referral traffic, through a registration wall, podcasts, and newsletters (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How lifestyle brand Man of Many has changed to counter falling Google traffic
Man of Many, an Australian digital lifestyle brand, has adopted a new 2.0 strategy involving a sign-in system and seen "record growth".

1935 and the Frankfurt School of left intellectuals, having fled Nazism in Germany, like many others, re-established itself in New York, USA.
2025 and left intellectuals start fleeing from really existing fascism in the USA.
Ironically to Spain, in one high profile case, which in 1935 was in the process of succumbing to the fascist Falange, but which now has a democratic and centre left government.

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Eitan Klinger, Zihao Huang, Tran Minh Nguyen, Emma Jayeon Park, Yige Chen, Yang Gu, Qingyu Gao, Siliang Liu, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06749

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Evaluating grammatical error correction requires metrics that reflect the diversity of valid human corrections rather than privileging a single reference. Existing frameworks, largely edit-based and English-centric, rely on rigid alignments between system and reference edits, limiting their applicability in multilingual and generative settings. This paper introduces a formal framework for \textit{fluency-based multi-reference evaluation}, framing $n$-gram similarity as an aggregation problem ov…

All-optical polarization control in time-varying low-index films via plasma symmetry breaking
Wallace Jaffray, Sven Stengel, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Domenico De Ceglia, Michael Scalora, Carlo Rizza, Marcello Ferrera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06985

All-optical polarization control in time-varying low-index films via plasma symmetry breaking
Controlling the polarization state of light with sub-picosecond speed and subwavelength precision remains a key challenge for next-generation nanophotonic devices. Conventional methods such as birefringent crystals, liquid crystals, or electro-optic Pockels cells are limited in speed, compactness, and energy efficiency. While structured materials and two-dimensional heterostructures offer potential for on-chip ultrafast performance, achieving all-optical control remains an open problem. Here we…

Dream Destroyer – the found is feeling again #feeling #music https://muz4now.com/2025/dream-destroy

Dream Destroyer - the found is feeling again
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Mark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
Th…

The progressive Honduran government declares the country free from illiteracy following a mass literacy campaign.
https://www.nodal.am/2025/09/el-gobierno-declaro-al-pais-territorio-libre-de-analfabetismo/

El Gobierno declaró al país territorio libre de analfabetismo – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe